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CVE-2018-17196

8.8 highEPSS 5.5%

High (8.8) in apache kafka. EPSS 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.apache.kafka:kafka 2.1.1.

In Apache Kafka versions between 0.11.0.0 and 2.1.0, it is possible to manually craft a Produce request which bypasses transaction/idempotent ACL validation. Only authenticated clients with Write permission on the respective topics are able to exploit this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to 2.1.1 or later where this vulnerability has been fixed.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-47w3-66wq-cpxgMavenorg.apache.kafka:kafka>=0.11.0.0 <2.1.12.1.1

References

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