Apache Kafka before versions 0.10.2.2, 0.11.0.3, 1.0.1 and 1.1.0 allow users to perform actions reserved for the Broker via manually created fetch requests that interfere with data replication, resulting in data loss. External Reference: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/29f61337323f48c47d4b41d74b9e452bd60e65d0e5103af9a6bb2fef@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E Upstream Patches: https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/d2932ad370c5b56edac9d99e6d75f199537a569f https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/580f743c3ce633241d6076ce83fb778cea86a1f6 https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/51f0f3ee792cf9352ce61afeca098c765cdad664
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Fuse 7.2 Via RHSA-2018:3768 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3768