CVE-2017-12610: Authenticated Kafka clients may impersonate other users
Severity: Moderate Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: Apache Kafka 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1, 0.11.0.0 to 0.11.0.1 Description: Authenticated Kafka clients may use impersonation via a manually crafted protocol message with SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM authentication when using the built-in PLAIN or SCRAM server implementations in Apache Kafka. Mitigation: Apache Kafka users should upgrade to one of the following versions where this vulnerability has been fixed: - 0.10.2.2 or higher - 0.11.0.2 or higher - 1.0.0 or higher Acknowledgements: This issue was reported by Rajini Sivaram. Regards, Rajini
