In Spring for Apache Kafka, forged retry topic headers subvert retry routing and backoff behavior
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-53w6-v7cv-fc9h | Spring for Apache Kafka: Improper Validation of Retry Topic Header Values Leads to Retry Sequence Manipulation |
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
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This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.240% probability within 30 days)
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| https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-41727 |
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| Description | Spring Kafka's retry topic infrastructure did not sufficiently validate user-controlled header values before acting on them. A producer could send a record with a crafted retry_topic-attempts header to supply an out-of-range attempt count and cause the retry topic router to misidentify where the message was in the retry sequence. Affected versions: Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 through 4.0.5; 3.3.0 through 3.3.15; 3.2.0 through 3.2.13; 2.9.0 through 2.9.13; 2.8.0 through 2.8.11. | |
| Title | In Spring for Apache Kafka, forged retry topic headers subvert retry routing and backoff behavior | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-20 | |
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cvssV3_1
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