Motor.NET before 0.19.0 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that allows a remote attacker who can produce records to a consumed topic to crash the service permanently by sending a single crafted record. By setting the content-type header to application/cloudevents+json and omitting required CloudEvent attributes (id, source, type), the attacker triggers an ArgumentException in KafkaMessageConsumer.SingleMessageHandlingAsync that is treated as fatal, causing the host to stop and re-process the same poison record on every restart, resulting in a permanent crash-loop.
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/motor-net-kafka-denial-of-service-via-cloudevents-handler
https://github.com/GDATASoftwareAG/motornet/releases/tag/v0.19.0
https://github.com/GDATASoftwareAG/motornet/pull/1785
https://github.com/GDATASoftwareAG/motornet/commit/b4b6979f5dd7447dd02312e27d766ae2e9d050c2
Published: 2026-10-22
Updated: 2026-10-22
Base Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Severity: High
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: High
Base Score: 8.7
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Severity: High