CVE-2026-10142

kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the protocol parser that allows a malicious broker or machine-in-the-middle attacker to exhaust memory or hang connections by sending a crafted 4-byte frame length value without bounds validation. Attackers can send a...

PT-2026-48531

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions kafka-python versions prior to 2.3.2 Description A denial-of-service issue exists in the SCRAM authentication handling. A malicious or machine-in-the-middle broker can freeze the client event loop by providing an excessively large iteration...

Dana Powers kafka-python Resource Management Error Vulnerability

Kafka-Python is a distributed stream processing engine client library written entirely in Python by Dana Powers. Versions of Kafka-Python prior to 2.3.2 contained a resource management vulnerability. This vulnerability stemmed from the lack of verification of the iteration count during SCRAM...

PT-2026-48530

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions kafka-python versions prior to 2.3.2 Description A denial-of-service issue exists in the protocol parser. A malicious broker or machine-in-the-middle attacker can exhaust memory or hang connections by sending a crafted 4-byte frame length valu...

CVE-2026-10142: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the protocol parser that allows a malicious broker or machine-in-the-middle attacker to exhaust memory or hang connections by sending a crafted 4-byte frame length value without bounds validation. Attackers can send a...

CVE-2026-10143: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in SCRAM authentication handling that allows a malicious or machine-in-the-middle broker to freeze the client event loop by supplying an excessively large iteration count. In scram.py, ScramClient.processserverfirstmessage...

Kafka-Python security vulnerabilities

Kafka-Python is a distributed stream processing engine client library written entirely in Python by Dana Powers. Versions of Kafka-Python prior to 2.3.2 contained security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stemmed from the lack of boundary validation for the 4-byte frame length value in the...