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python-kafka — security advisory
kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the protocol parser that allows a malicious broker or machine-in-the-middle attacker to exhaust memory or hang connections by sending a crafted 4-byte frame length value without bounds validation. Attackers can send a specially crafted frame length through the receive_bytes() function to trigger either a multi-gigabyte memory allocation or an uncaught ValueError that leaves the connection in a broken state, causing requests to hang and consumers to stop heartbeating until restart.
- Products
- python-kafka
- Affected versions
- 2.0.2-10, 2.0.2-11, 2.0.2-12, 2.0.2-13, 2.0.2-3, 2.0.2-4, 2.0.2-5, 2.0.2-6, 2.0.2-7, 2.0.2-8, 2.0.2-9, 2.2.3-1
- Fixed versions
- 2.0.2-13
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-10142
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 11:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the protocol parser that allows a malicious broker or machine-in-the-middle attacker to exhaust memory or hang connections by sending a crafted 4-byte frame length value without bounds validation. Attackers can send a specially crafted frame length through the receive_bytes() function to trigger either a multi-gigabyte memory allocation or an uncaught ValueError that leaves the connection in a broken state, causing requests to hang and consumers to stop heartbeating until restart.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-10142
python-kafka
Fixed versions: Not specified
python-kafka
Fixed versions: Not specified
python-kafka
Fixed versions: 2.0.2-13
Complete source record
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