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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-41727

In Spring for Apache Kafka, forged retry topic headers subvert retry routing and backoff behavior

Description

Spring Kafka's retry topic infrastructure did not sufficiently validate user-controlled header values before acting on them. A producer could send a record with a crafted retry_topic-attempts header to supply an out-of-range attempt count and cause the retry topic router to misidentify where the message was in the retry sequence. Affected versions: Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 through 4.0.5; 3.3.0 through 3.3.15; 3.2.0 through 3.2.13; 2.9.0 through 2.9.13; 2.8.0 through 2.8.11.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Spring Spring for Apache Kafka

Default version status: unaffected

  • 4.0.0 to < 4.0.5.1affected
  • 3.3.0 to < 3.3.15.1affected
  • 3.2.0 to < 3.2.14affected
  • 2.9.0 to < 2.9.14affected
  • 2.8.0 to < 2.8.12affected

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