CVSS 3.1
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2026-128424 Kroxylicious-authorizer-acl: kroxylicious: acl rule file regex escapes are stripped, broadening 'matching' authorization rules
Medium (5.3) in red hat streams for apache kafka 3. EPSS 0.3% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in Kroxylicious. The ACL authorizer's rules-file parser unquotes `matching /…/` regular-expression literals using the string unquoting rules, which strips every backslash escape. As a result, an allow rule such as `matching /orders\.v1/` is compiled as the regex `orders.v1`, which also matches unintended names such as `ordersXv1`, and character classes such as `\d` and `\w` lose their special meaning. Allow rules written with regex escapes can therefore apply to more resources than the author intended. Depending on the ACL configuration, this may allow an authenticated Kafka client to access a resource (such as read or write a topic) that should have been denied.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 22nd percentile. Scored 2026-11-13. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
- CISA's assessment (SSVC)
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial, assessed 2026-11-13. From CISA's Vulnrichment in the CVE List: whether it is exploited, whether exploiting it can be automated, and how much control it gives.
- CWE
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
- OWASP Top 10
- A01:2025 Broken Access Control
- Published
- Modified
- Assigned by
- redhat (CNA)
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting analysis
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
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Affected
- red hat:streams for apache kafka 3