Bug 1611049 (CVE-2017-12610)

Summary:	CVE-2017-12610 kafka: Clients authenticated with SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM can impersonate other users
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	avibelli, bgeorges, cbyrne, cmacedo, dffrench, drusso, jbalunas, jmadigan, jpallich, jshepherd, krathod, lgriffin, lthon, mszynkie, ngough, pgallagh, pwright, rruss, trepel, trogers
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kafka 0.10.2.2, kafka 0.11.0.2, kafka 1.0.0	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Blocks:	Embargoed1611060

Description Sam Fowler 2018-08-02 02:27:33 UTC

Apache Kafka before versions 0.10.2.2, 0.11.0.2 and 1.0.0 allow clients to impersonate users via a manually crafted protocol message with SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM authentication when using the built-in PLAIN or SCRAM server implementations.


External Reference:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b6157be1a09df332294213bd21e90dcf9fe4c1810193be54620e4210@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E


Upstream Patches:

https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/9f3468645b968761ca9141d18337cb6adadbae97
https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/0b4daa4bf48517b4b3e9cda11692e80ade620b04
https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/47c2753496875db2849065ad91ee03c7c842c8e9

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-16 02:47:00 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-12610