CVE-2019-12399

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Kafka
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 January 2020

Summary

When Connect workers in Apache Kafka 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, or 2.3.0 are configured with one or more config providers, and a connector is created/updated on that Connect cluster to use an externalized secret variable in a substring of a connector configuration property value, then any client can issue a request to the same Connect cluster to obtain the connector's task configuration and the response will contain the plaintext secret rather than the externalized secrets variables.

Affected Version(s)

Kafka Apache Kafka 2.0.0

Kafka 2.0.1

Kafka 2.1.0

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6af5ed95726874e9add...
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/14/1
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6af5ed95726874e9add...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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