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CVE-2021-38153

Timing Attack Vulnerability for Apache Kafka Connect and Clients PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Some components in Apache Kafka use `Arrays.equals` to validate a password or key, which is vulnerable to timing attacks that make brute force attacks for such credentials more likely to be successful. Users should upgrade to 2.8.1 or higher, or 3.0.0 or higher where this vulnerability has been fixed. The affected versions include Apache Kafka 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.7.0, 2.7.1, and 2.8.0.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Apache Software Foundation / Apache Kafkaaffected Apache Kafka 2.0.x through 2.0.1; affected Apache Kafka 2.1.x through 2.1.1; affected Apache Kafka 2.2.x through 2.2.2; affected Apache Kafka 2.3.x through 2.3.1; affected Apache Kafka 2.4.x through 2.4.1; affected Apache Kafka 2.5.x through 2.5.1; affected Apache Kafka 2.6.x through 2.6.2; affected Apache Kafka 2.7.x through 2.7.1; affected Apache Kafka 2.8.x through 2.8.0

CWE

CWE-203

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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