CVE-2026-27133

Strimzi All CAs from CA chain will be trusted in Kafka Connect and Kafka MirrorMaker 2 target clusters

Published Feb 20, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes or OpenShift in various deployment configurations. From 0.47.0 to before 0.50.1, when a chain consisting of multiple CA (Certificate Authority) certificates is used in the trusted certificates configuration of a Kafka Connect operand or of the target cluster in the Kafka MirrorMaker 2 operand, all of the certificates that are part of the CA chain will be trusted individually when connecting to the Apache Kafka cluster. Due to this error, the affected operand (Kafka Connect or Kafka MirrorMaker 2) might accept connections to Kafka brokers using server certificates signed by one of the other CAs in the CA chain and not just by the last CA in the chain. This issue is fixed in Strimzi 0.50.1.

Remediation

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linuxfoundation strimzi
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:strimzi_kafka_operator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:strimzi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linuxfoundation strimzi Kafka Operator
Linuxfoundation strimzi
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linuxfoundation
Linuxfoundation strimzi Kafka Operator
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:strimzi_kafka_operator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linuxfoundation
Linuxfoundation strimzi Kafka Operator
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Strimzi
Strimzi kafka-operator
Vendors & Products Strimzi
Strimzi kafka-operator
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes or OpenShift in various deployment configurations. From 0.47.0 to before 0.50.1, when a chain consisting of multiple CA (Certificate Authority) certificates is used in the trusted certificates configuration of a Kafka Connect operand or of the target cluster in the Kafka MirrorMaker 2 operand, all of the certificates that are part of the CA chain will be trusted individually when connecting to the Apache Kafka cluster. Due to this error, the affected operand (Kafka Connect or Kafka MirrorMaker 2) might accept connections to Kafka brokers using server certificates signed by one of the other CAs in the CA chain and not just by the last CA in the chain. This issue is fixed in Strimzi 0.50.1.
Title Strimzi All CAs from CA chain will be trusted in Kafka Connect and Kafka MirrorMaker 2 target clusters
Weaknesses CWE-295
CWE-296
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Feb 25, 2026, 9:32 PM
Reserved
Feb 17, 2026, 6:42 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Feb 20, 2026, 11:16 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:26 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Feb 20, 2026, 10:38 PM