Denial of service in Apache Kafka

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU67489

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34917

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote non-authenticated attacker with ability to establish a network connection with the Apache Kafka broker can consume all available memory resources on the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Apache Kafka: 2.8.0 - 3.2.2

External links

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q3/210
http://kafka.apache.org/cve-list

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.