Vmware Spring for Apache Kafka up to 2.9.10/3.0.9 Record Header deserialization

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Vmware Spring for Apache Kafka up to 2.9.10/3.0.9. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Record Header Handler. Such manipulation leads to deserialization. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-34040. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Vmware Spring for Apache Kafka up to 2.9.10/3.0.9. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Record Header Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.9 and earlier and versions 2.9.10 and earlier, a possible deserialization attack vector existed, but only if unusual configuration was applied. An attacker would have to construct a malicious serialized object in one of the deserialization exception record headers. Specifically, an application is vulnerable when all of the following are true: * The user does not configure an ErrorHandlingDeserializer for the key and/or value of the record * The user explicitly sets container properties checkDeserExWhenKeyNull and/or checkDeserExWhenValueNull container properties to true. * The user allows untrusted sources to publish to a Kafka topic By default, these properties are false, and the container only attempts to deserialize the headers if an ErrorHandlingDeserializer is configured. The ErrorHandlingDeserializer prevents the vulnerability by removing any such malicious headers before processing the record.

The weakness was shared 08/24/2023. The advisory is available at spring.io. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-34040 since 05/25/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 2.9.11 or 3.0.10 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Vmware

Name

• Spring for Apache Kafka

Version

• 2.9.0
• 2.9.1
• 2.9.2
• 2.9.3
• 2.9.4
• 2.9.5
• 2.9.6
• 2.9.7
• 2.9.8
• 2.9.9
• 2.9.10
• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.0.8
• 3.0.9

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.vmware.com/

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