BREW-PARSEDMARC-CVE-2026-10143 (PYSEC-2026-2191)
Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 17:25 – Updated: 2026-09-10 00:50 – Source websitekafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in SCRAM authentication handling that allows a malicious or machine-in-the-middle broker to freeze the client event loop by supplying an excessively large iteration count. In scram.py, ScramClient.process_server_first_message() passes the broker-controlled SCRAM iteration count directly to hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac() without validation, blocking producer sends, consumer polls, admin operations, and heartbeats, which can cause consumer group eviction and repeated reconnect failures.
{
"affected": [
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"fix": "bump",
"range_state": "fixed",
"resource": "kafka-python",
"resource_purl": "pkg:pypi/kafka-python@3.0.11",
"upstream_fixed_in": "2.3.2"
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Homebrew",
"name": "parsedmarc",
"purl": "pkg:brew/parsedmarc"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "10.4.1_1"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"database_specific": {
"confidence": "high",
"source": "matched",
"strategy": "registry",
"upstream_evidence": [
{
"ecosystem": "PyPI",
"key": "pkg:pypi/kafka-python@3.0.11",
"name": "kafka-python",
"resource": "kafka-python",
"strategy": "registry",
"subject_version": "3.0.11"
}
]
},
"details": "kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in SCRAM authentication handling that allows a malicious or machine-in-the-middle broker to freeze the client event loop by supplying an excessively large iteration count. In scram.py, ScramClient.process_server_first_message() passes the broker-controlled SCRAM iteration count directly to hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac() without validation, blocking producer sends, consumer polls, admin operations, and heartbeats, which can cause consumer group eviction and repeated reconnect failures.",
"id": "BREW-parsedmarc-CVE-2026-10143",
"modified": "2026-09-10T00:50:44Z",
"published": "2026-08-13T17:25:33Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-10143"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python/pull/3026"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python/pull/3019"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python/commit/74400d7ef1b54ad24d4b8170c23b58d1cab65e4f"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python/commit/6e4831444f972d169cdd11f5c8d50333cea3f19b"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/kafka-python-prior-to-dos-via-scram-iteration-count-in-scram-py"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-10143.json"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/kafka-python/PYSEC-2026-2191.yaml"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python/releases/tag/2.3.2"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487722"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-10143"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42796"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41066"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33683"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30076"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28571"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.7.3",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
],
"summary": "kafka-python vulnerable to denial of service through an unbounded SCRAM iteration count",
"upstream": [
"PYSEC-2026-2191",
"CVE-2026-10143",
"GHSA-2jcm-hq8r-84wx"
]
}
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