Medium
Security advisory
In Apache Kafka 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1 and 0.11.0.0 to 0.11.0.1, authenticated Kafka clients may use impersonation via a manually crafted protocol message with SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM authentication when using the built-in PLAIN or SCRAM server implementations in Apache Kafka.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-12610
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Apache Kafka 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1 and 0.11.0.0 to 0.11.0.1, authenticated Kafka clients may use impersonation via a manually crafted protocol message with SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM authentication when using the built-in PLAIN or SCRAM server implementations in Apache Kafka.
osv:CVE-2017-12610
Complete source record
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