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CVE-2021-38153 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 1.06% · 77.5th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
1.06%
77.5th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Bitnamikafka2.0.0, 2.7.0, 2.8.0
Bitnamikafka2.0.0, 2.7.0, 2.8.0

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