CVE-2018-1288: Authenticated Kafka clients may interfere with data replication
Severity: Moderate Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0 to 0.9.0.1, 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1, 0.11.0.0 to 0.11.0.2, 1.0.0 Description: Authenticated Kafka users may perform action reserved for the Broker via a manually created fetch request interfering with data replication, resulting in data loss. Mitigation: Apache Kafka users should upgrade to one of the following versions where this vulnerability has been fixed. - 0.10.2.2 or higher - 0.11.0.3 or higher - 1.0.1 or higher - 1.1.0 or higher Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Edoardo Comar and Mickael Maison for reporting this issue and providing a resolution. Regards, Rajini