CVE-2018-1288: Authenticated Kafka clients may interfere with data replication

[Rajini Sivaram <rajinisivaram () gmail com>]

CVE-2018-1288: Authenticated Kafka clients may interfere with data
replication



Severity: Moderate



Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation



Versions Affected:

Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0 to 0.9.0.1, 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1, 0.11.0.0 to
0.11.0.2, 1.0.0



Description:

Authenticated Kafka users may perform action reserved for the Broker via a
manually created fetch request interfering with data replication, resulting
in data loss.



Mitigation:

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


   - 0.10.2.2 or higher
   - 0.11.0.3 or higher
   - 1.0.1 or higher
   - 1.1.0 or higher



Acknowledgements:

We would like to thank Edoardo Comar and Mickael Maison for reporting this
issue and providing a resolution.



Regards,


Rajini