Security advisory

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  "id": "d264c6970abd2a51f2aa35d29de70bf0cd5a439dab33c7163596009c69291bd4",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17196",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-17196",
    "summary": "In Apache Kafka versions between 0.11.0.0 and 2.1.0, it is possible to manually craft a Produce request which bypasses transaction/idempotent ACL validation. Only authenticated clients with Write permission on the respective topics are able to exploit this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to 2.1.1 or later where this vulnerability has been fixed.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-17196",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-17196",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-17196",
        "GHSA-47w3-66wq-cpxg"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/kafka",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "e18335dd953107a61d89451932de33d33c0fd207"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "809be928f1ae004e11d65c307ea322bef126c834"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:kafka:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.11.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.1.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17196.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:05.827412956Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d1581fb6464c9bec8a72575c01f5097d68e2fbb230aff24622622a58%40%3Ccommits.kafka.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc%40%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r66de86b9a608c1da70b2d27d765c11ec88edf6e5dd6f379ab33e072a%40%3Cuser.flink.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8890b8f18f1de821595792b58b968a89692a255bc20d86d395270740%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc27d424d0bdeaf31081c3e246db3c66e882243ae3f342dfa845e0261%40%3Ccommits.kafka.apache.org%3E",
        "https://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40kafka.apache.org/msg99277.html",
        "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html",
        "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-17196",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440849,
  "published_at": "2019-07-11T21:15:09.53+00:00"
}