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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-59317 EUVD-2026-67199GHSA-v648-fvf7-jrg2

In Spring for Apache Kafka, missing header validation in DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory enables denial of service via a poison-pill loop

Published Aug 27, 2026 · Updated Aug 28, 2026 · Assigned by vmware

Description

DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory reads the retry_topic-original-timestamp header from an inbound ConsumerRecord and passes its raw bytes directly to new BigInteger(header.value()) with no length or format validation.
Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0
Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 - 4.0.6
Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0 - 3.3.16
Spring for Apache Kafka 2.9.0 - 2.9.14
Spring for Apache Kafka 2.8.12 and earlier

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Spring Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0, 4.0.0 – ≤ 4.0.6, 3.0.0 – ≤ 3.3.16, 2.9.0 – ≤ 2.9.14, ≤ 2.8.12 —

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