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CVE-2026-10142 high CVSS 7.5

Vulnerability in kafka-python (CVE-2026-10142)

Summary

Vulnerability in kafka-python (CVE-2026-10142). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 2.3.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the protocol parser that allows a malicious broker or machine-in-the-middle attacker to exhaust memory or hang connections by sending a crafted 4-byte frame length value without bounds validation. Attackers can send a specially crafted frame length through the receive_bytes() function to trigger either a multi-gigabyte memory allocation or an uncaught ValueError that leaves the connection in a broken state, causing requests to hang and consumers to stop heartbeating until restart.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-10142 has been found in kafka-python.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: upgrade kafka-python to 2.3.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "kafka-python CVE-2026-10142" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2026-10142 (kafka-python) — CWE-789 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 2.3.2 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (CWE-789) exists in kafka-python.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of kafka-python.

🔥 Severity

Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 2.3.2.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'kafka-python' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

  1. 1
    Identify exposure identify 
    grep -r 'kafka-python' . | grep -v node_modules

    リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で kafka-python を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。

  2. 2
    Apply patch patch 
    Upgrade kafka-python to 2.3.2

    ステージング環境で 2.3.2 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。

  3. 3
    Post-deployment verification verify 
    Confirm patched version is live in production

    パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

pip kafka-python
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.3.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

References

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