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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2023-29471

Lightbend Alpakka Kafka before 5.0.0 logs its configuration as debug information, and thus log files may contain credentials (if plain cleartext login is configured). This occurs in akka.kafka.internal.KafkaConsumerActor.

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5 Nov 2026, 01:12 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2023-29471

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Apr 2023, 00:00 UTC

Lightbend Alpakka Kafka before 5.0.0 logs its configuration as debug information, and thus log files may contain credentials (if plain cleartext login is configured). This occurs in akka.kafka.internal.KafkaConsumerActor.

osv:CVE-2023-29471
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-29471",
  "method": "structured",
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    "title": "CVE-2023-29471",
    "summary": "Lightbend Alpakka Kafka before 5.0.0 logs its configuration as debug information, and thus log files may contain credentials (if plain cleartext login is configured). This occurs in akka.kafka.internal.KafkaConsumerActor.",
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    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:41.477153292Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://akka.io/security/alpakka-kafka-cve-2023-29471.html",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/29xxx/CVE-2023-29471.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29471",
        "https://github.com/akka/alpakka-kafka/issues/1592"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2023-04-27T00:00:00+00:00"
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