In Spring for Apache Kafka, missing header validation in DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory enables denial of service via a poison-pill loop
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 69% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory reads the retry_topic-original-timestamp header from an inbound ConsumerRecord and passes its raw bytes directly to new BigInteger(header.value()) with no length or format validation.
Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0
Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 - 4.0.6
Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0 - 3.3.16
Spring for Apache Kafka 2.9.0 - 2.9.14
Spring for Apache Kafka 2.8.12 and earlier
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Spring · Spring for Apache Kafka