Bugzilla – Bug 1190852
VUL-1: CVE-2021-38153: kafka: Timing Attack Vulnerability for Apache Kafka Connect and Clients
Last modified: 2021-09-24 13:15:08 UTC
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. References: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-38153 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2021/q3/184 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-38153 http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2021-38153/ https://kafka.apache.org/cve-list
Affected packages: - openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP2/kafka 2.1.0 - openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP3/kafka 2.1.0 - openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP4/kafka 2.1.0 - openSUSE:Factory/kafka 2.1.0 Please update kafka to a non vulnerable version (>= 2.8.1).