Bug 2544809 (CVE-2026-15911)

Summary: CVE-2026-15911 confluent-kafka: confluent-kafka: Information disclosure via improper TLS certificate validation in HashiCorp Vault integration
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Version: unspecifiedCC: anthomas, aprice, cmyers, dnakabaa, ehelms, gbenhaim, ggainey, jdobes, jholecek, jpasqual, jsamir, juwatts, kaycoth, kgaikwad, lcouzens, mdellweg, mhulan, niyer, nmoumoul, oezr, orabin, osousa, pcreech, rchan, smallamp, tmalecek, twaugh, xiaoxwan, zzhou
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A flaw was found in confluent-kafka. The HashiCorp Vault Key Management Service (KMS) integration fails to properly validate Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates by default. A remote attacker able to intercept network traffic could exploit this flaw to intercept and decrypt sensitive data or tamper with communications between the client and the Vault service.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-01 22:55:38 UTC
Confluent Kafka Python client's HashiCorp Vault KMS integration could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information due to improper TLS certificate validation.