Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2023-29471
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 5 Nov 2026, 01:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:41.477153292Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"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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