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VMwareCVE-2026-59317

VMware Spring for Apache Kafka: improper quantity validation

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CVE-2026-59317 · Published Aug 27, 2026 · updated Sep 4, 2026

Medium6.5
No fix yet
VMware advisory

DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory reads the retry_topic-original-timestamp header from an inbound ConsumerRecord and passes its raw bytes directly to new BigInteger(header.value()) with no length or format validation.

Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0

Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 - 4.0.6

Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0 - 3.3.16

Spring for Apache Kafka 2.9.0 - 2.9.14

Spring for Apache Kafka 2.8.12 and earlier

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Spring for Apache Kafka
Product
<= 4.1.0No fix yet
>= 4.0.0, <= 4.0.6No fix yet
>= 3.0.0, <= 3.3.16No fix yet
>= 2.9.0, <= 2.9.14No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-1284

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