CVE-2019-12399
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Kafka
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.3%
Description
When Connect workers in Apache Kafka 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, or 2.3.0 are configured with one or more config providers, and a connector is created/updated on that Connect cluster to use an externalized secret variable in a substring of a connector configuration property value, then any client can issue a request to the same Connect cluster to obtain the connector's task configuration and the response will contain the plaintext secret rather than the externalized secrets variables.
How to fix CVE-2019-12399
To remediate CVE-2019-12399, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.0.2 or later
Is CVE-2019-12399 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |