CVE-2017-12610: Improper Authentication

July 26, 2018 (updated October 17, 2019)

Authenticated Kafka clients may use impersonation via a manually crafted protocol message with SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM authentication when using the built-in PLAIN or SCRAM server implementations in Apache Kafka.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/104899
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12610

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