CVE-2026-41731 (GCVE-0-2026-41731)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-09 23:49 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:14
VLAI
Title
In Spring for Apache Kafka, overly broad trusted-package matching in header mappers exposes JDK classes to deserialization
Summary
JsonKafkaHeaderMapper and the deprecated DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper matched type headers against trusted packages using a prefix check, meaning that trusting any package implicitly trusted all of its subpackages. Combined with Jackson's default bean deserialization, a producer could supply crafted header values that caused the consumer to deserialize arbitrary JDK types. 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.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-10 17:18 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
vmware CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 64/100 over 226 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Spring Spring for Apache Kafka Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.5.1 (custom)
Affected: 3.3.0 , < 3.3.15.1 (custom)
Affected: 3.2.0 , < 3.2.14 (custom)
Affected: 2.9.0 , < 2.9.14 (custom)
Affected: 2.8.0 , < 2.8.12 (custom)
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Red Hat Red Hat Fuse 7     cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_fuse:7
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Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack     cpe:/a:redhat:jbosseapxp
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