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CVE-2024-31141 Apache Kafka

Affected softwareApache Kafka
Severity6.5 Medium CVSS 3.1
Fixed in3.7.1
WeaknessImproper privilege management (CWE-269)
Published19 Nov 2024
Updated17 Jun 2026

Description

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties, Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Apache Kafka Clients. Apache Kafka Clients accept configuration data for customizing behavior, and includes ConfigProvider plugins in order to manipulate these configurations. Apache Kafka also provides FileConfigProvider, DirectoryConfigProvider, and EnvVarConfigProvider implementations which include the ability to read from disk or environment variables. In applications where Apache Kafka Clients configurations can be specified by an untrusted party, attackers may use these ConfigProviders to read arbitrary contents of the disk and environment variables. In particular, this flaw may be used in Apache Kafka Connect to escalate from REST API access to filesystem/environment access, which may be undesirable in certain environments, including SaaS products. This issue affects Apache Kafka Clients: from 2.3.0 through 3.5.2, 3.6.2, 3.7.0. Users with affected applications are recommended to upgrade kafka-clients to version >=3.8.0, and set the JVM system property "org.apache.kafka.automatic.config.providers=none". Users of Kafka Connect with one of the listed ConfigProvider implementations specified in their worker config are also recommended to add appropriate "allowlist.pattern" and "allowed.paths" to restrict their operation to appropriate bounds. For users of Kafka Clients or Kafka Connect in environments that trust users with disk and environment variable access, it is not recommended to set the system property. For users of the Kafka Broker, Kafka MirrorMaker 2.0, Kafka Streams, and Kafka command-line tools, it is not recommended to set the system property.

CWE-552

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published a year ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 1.3% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

A public code fix exists.

  • Protection none
  • Action unverified
  • Review automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by Exploit code for this candidate, published in a reviewed catalogue or a GitHub repository with 5 or more stars, or in use per CISA or VulnCheck; not only a CISA verdict, a forecast, or nothing at all
Finding This CVE is not listed in CISA KEV or VulnCheck KEV, CISA Vulnrichment records no active exploitation, no reviewed exploit catalogue carries an entry for it, and no GitHub PoC repository for it has 5 or more stars. Nobody has published exploit code worth tracing, so it is not a candidate for a rule ahead of the ones where somebody has; an upstream fix path does exist, so the remediation half of the candidacy still holds. This is a statement about what has been published, not about whether the defect is reachable or serious.

Affected software and releases

Oracle advisories

AdvisoryTypeQuarterProducts Oracle names in its risk matrix
Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2026 ↗ CPU 2026-Q1 Oracle Siebel CRM / Application Interface (Apache Log4j) (17.0-25.10)
Oracle Critical Patch Update July 2025 ↗ CPU 2025-Q3 Oracle Communications Applications / Third Party (Apache Kafka) (7.5.1, 7.6.0-7.8.0)
Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2025 ↗ CPU 2025-Q2 Oracle Communications Applications / Microservices (Apache Kafka) (6.0-6.1)

Oracle components and versions

FamilyComponentVersions, as Oracle lists themRead as
Oracle Communications Applications Microservices (Apache Kafka) 6.0-6.1
Oracle Communications Applications Third Party (Apache Kafka) 7.5.1, 7.6.0-7.8.0 7.5.1
Oracle Siebel CRM Application Interface (Apache Log4j) 17.0-25.10

Maven packages

Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev
PackageIntroducedFixedLast affected
org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients 2.3.0 3.7.1 unbounded

Products and versions

2 products, 4 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd apache kafka generic ≥ 2.3.0 and ≤ 3.5.2 · ≥ 3.6.0 and ≤ 3.6.2 · 3.7.0
osv org.apache.kafka kafka-clients generic ≥ 2.3.0 and < 3.7.1

References

URLTags
https://github.com/apache/kafka PACKAGE
https://lists.apache.org/thread/9whdzfr0zwdhr364604w5ssnzmg4v2lv WEB
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0001 WEB
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/11/18/5 WEB
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250131-0001/ Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published2024-11-19By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.