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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-59317

In Spring for Apache Kafka, missing header validation in DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory enables denial of service via a poison-pill loop

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
vmware

Description

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

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

  • 4.1.0affected
  • 4.0.0 to ≤ 4.0.6affected
  • 3.0.0 to ≤ 3.3.16affected
  • 2.9.0 to ≤ 2.9.14affected
  • 0 to ≤ 2.8.12affected

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