CVE-2017-12610: Authenticated Kafka clients may impersonate other users

[Rajini Sivaram <rsivaram () apache org>]

CVE-2017-12610: Authenticated Kafka clients may impersonate other users


Severity: Moderate



Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation



Versions Affected:

Apache Kafka 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1, 0.11.0.0 to 0.11.0.1



Description:

Authenticated Kafka clients may use impersonation via a manually crafted
protocol message with SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM authentication when using
the built-in PLAIN or SCRAM server implementations in Apache Kafka.



Mitigation:

Apache Kafka users should upgrade to one of the following versions where
this vulnerability has been fixed:


   - 0.10.2.2 or higher
   - 0.11.0.2 or higher
   - 1.0.0 or higher



Acknowledgements:

This issue was reported by Rajini Sivaram.



Regards,


Rajini