CVE-2024-31141 (Medium) detected in kafka-clients-3.6.2.jar, kafka-clients-3.6.1.jar

[mend-bolt-for-github]

CVE-2024-31141 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Libraries - kafka-clients-3.6.2.jar, kafka-clients-3.6.1.jar

kafka-clients-3.6.2.jar

Library home page: https://kafka.apache.org

Path to dependency file: /persistence/build.gradle

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients/3.6.2/2bbee78783a8403c012693cfac7fdfc52422a94d/kafka-clients-3.6.2.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• spring-kafka-3.2.2.jar (Root Library)
  • ❌ kafka-clients-3.6.2.jar (Vulnerable Library)

kafka-clients-3.6.1.jar

Library home page: https://kafka.apache.org

Path to dependency file: /file-storage/build.gradle

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients/3.6.1/f286782832fee4fca84c2f4158b9258f22fa0b85/kafka-clients-3.6.1.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• ❌ kafka-clients-3.6.1.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 335a4047c89f52dfe860e93daefb32dc86a521a2

Found in base branch: develop

Vulnerability Details

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties, Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Apache Kafka Clients. Apache Kafka Clients accept configuration data for customizing behavior, and includes ConfigProvider plugins in order to manipulate these configurations. Apache Kafka also provides FileConfigProvider, DirectoryConfigProvider, and EnvVarConfigProvider implementations which include the ability to read from disk or environment variables. In applications where Apache Kafka Clients configurations can be specified by an untrusted party, attackers may use these ConfigProviders to read arbitrary contents of the disk and environment variables. In particular, this flaw may be used in Apache Kafka Connect to escalate from REST API access to filesystem/environment access, which may be undesirable in certain environments, including SaaS products. This issue affects Apache Kafka Clients: from 2.3.0 through 3.5.2, 3.6.2, 3.7.0. Users with affected applications are recommended to upgrade kafka-clients to version >=3.8.0, and set the JVM system property "org.apache.kafka.automatic.config.providers=none". Users of Kafka Connect with one of the listed ConfigProvider implementations specified in their worker config are also recommended to add appropriate "allowlist.pattern" and "allowed.paths" to restrict their operation to appropriate bounds. For users of Kafka Clients or Kafka Connect in environments that trust users with disk and environment variable access, it is not recommended to set the system property. For users of the Kafka Broker, Kafka MirrorMaker 2.0, Kafka Streams, and Kafka command-line tools, it is not recommended to set the system property.

Publish Date: 2024-11-19

URL: CVE-2024-31141

CVSS 3 Score Details (6.5)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: Low
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: High
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2024/q4/106

Release Date: 2024-11-19

Fix Resolution (org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients): 3.7.1

Direct dependency fix Resolution (org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka): 3.2.3

---

Step up your Open Source Security Game with Mend here