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CVE-2026-59317 (GCVE-0-2026-59317)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-27 18:04 – Updated: 2026-08-27 18:04

Title

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

Summary

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

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-1284 Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

Assigner

vmware mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-59317

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Spring	Spring for Apache Kafka	Affected: 4.1.0 (custom) Affected: 4.0.0 , ≤ 4.0.6 (custom) Affected: 3.0.0 , ≤ 3.3.16 (custom) Affected: 2.9.0 , ≤ 2.9.14 (custom) Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.8.12 (custom)	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-59317

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-27 20:17 - Updated: 2026-08-27 20:17

Severity

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security@vmware.com	https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-59317

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-V648-FVF7-JRG2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-27 21:31 – Updated: 2026-08-27 21:31

Details

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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