Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Apache Kafka Client

Apache Kafka Clients are vulnerable to improper privilege management due to the use of ConfigProvider plugins that can read from disk or environment variables. This could allow an attacker to read arbitrary contents of the disk and environment variables, potentially escalating from REST API acces...

kafka-clients: privilege escalation to filesystem read-access via automatic ConfigProvider

A flaw was found in Apache Kafka Clients. Apache Kafka Clients accepts configuration data for customizing behavior and includes ConfigProvider plugins to manipulate these configurations. Apache Kafka also provides FileConfigProvider, DirectoryConfigProvider, and EnvVarConfigProvider...