Some components in Apache Kafka use `Arrays.equals` to validate a password or key, which is vulnerable to timing attacks that make brute force attacks for such credentials more likely to be successful. Users should upgrade to 2.8.1 or higher, or 3.0.0 or higher where this vulnerability has been fixed. The affected versions include Apache Kafka 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.7.0, 2.7.1, and 2.8.0.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published: 2021-09-22T09:05:11

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:37:15.929Z

Reserved: 2021-08-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-38153

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-09-22T09:15:07.847

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:37:22.183

Link: CVE-2021-38153

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-09-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-38153 - Bugzilla