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SCA: security update for org.apache.kafka:kafka (GHSA-6jmf-mxwf-r3jc)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422465

Description

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

 - When Connect workers in Apache Kafka 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, or 2.3.0 are configured
 with one or more config providers, and a connector is created/updated on that Connect cluster to use an
 externalized secret variable in a substring of a connector configuration property value, then any client
 can issue a request to the same Connect cluster to obtain the connector's task configuration and the
 response will contain the plaintext secret rather than the externalized secrets variables.
 (CVE-2019-12399)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6jmf-mxwf-r3jc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422465

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12399

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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: 5/12/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12399

cwe: CWE-319