Buffer Overflow Affecting confluent-kafka package, versions [,1.4.0)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
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- published 15 Apr 2020
- disclosed 15 Apr 2020
- credit Unknown
How to fix?
Upgrade confluent-kafka to version 1.4.0 or higher.
Overview
confluent-kafka is a high-level Producer, Consumer and AdminClient compatible with all Apache KafkaTM broker
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. In the SASL SCRAM protocol handler if sasl.username and sasl.password contained characters that needed escaping, a buffer overflow and heap corruption occurs. This is protected, but too late, by an assertion.