CVE-2018-17196
In Apache Kafka versions between 0.11.0.0 and 2.1.0, it is possible to manually craft a Produce request which bypasses…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 5.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Apache Kafka versions between 0.11.0.0 and 2.1.0, it is possible to manually craft a Produce request which bypasses transaction/idempotent ACL validation. Only authenticated clients with Write permission on the respective topics are able to exploit this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to 2.1.1 or later where this vulnerability has been fixed.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.4% · top 7.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.kafka:kafkaGHSA-47w3-66wq-cpxg (opens in a new tab)
References
11
- 109139 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [kafka-commits] 20190802 [kafka-site] branch asf-site updated: Add CVE-2018-17196, fix some links. (#223) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [drill-dev] 20191017 Dependencies used by Drill contain known vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [drill-dev] 20191021 [jira] [Created] (DRILL-7416) Updates required to dependencies to resolve potential security vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [drill-issues] 20191021 [jira] [Created] (DRILL-7416) Updates required to dependencies to resolve potential security vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [kafka-commits] 20200115 [kafka-site] branch asf-site updated: Add CVE-2019-12399 (#250) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [druid-commits] 20200406 [GitHub] [druid] ccaominh commented on issue #9579: Add Apache Ranger Authorization (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40kafka.apache.org/msg99277.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [flink-user] 20210703 Re: owasp-dependency-check is flagging flink 1.13 for scala 2.12.7 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-2333 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-47w3-66wq-cpxg (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-17196)Record last updated .