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SCA: security update for org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients (GHSA-xm78-4m3g-7wm7)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 420568

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In Apache Kafka 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1 and 0.11.0.0 to 0.11.0.1, 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. (CVE-2017-12610)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xm78-4m3g-7wm7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 420568

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12610

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12610

BID: 104899

cwe: CWE-287