spring-projects/spring-kafka · Security
In Spring for Apache Kafka, overly broad trusted-package matching in header mappers exposes JDK classes to deserialization
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-xq69-5h5v-x9x4
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-41731
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
JsonKafkaHeaderMapper and the deprecated DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper matched type headers against trusted packages using a prefix check, meaning that trusting any package implicitly trusted all of its subpackages. Combined with Jackson's default bean deserialization, a producer could supply crafted header values that caused the consumer to deserialize arbitrary JDK types.
Affected versions: Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 through 4.0.5; 3.3.0 through 3.3.15; 3.2.0 through 3.2.13; 2.9.0 through 2.9.13; 2.8.0 through 2.8.11.
CWEs
- CWE-502 · Deserialization of Untrusted Data