CVE-2021-38153
unknown
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
—
Description
Observable Discrepancy in Apache Kafka
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.11 | >=2.0.0,<=2.4.1 | |
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.12 | >=2.0.0,<2.6.3 | 2.6.3 |
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.12 | >=2.7.0,<2.7.2 | 2.7.2 |
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.12 | >=2.8.0,<2.8.1 | 2.8.1 |
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.13 | >=2.4.0,<2.6.3 | 2.6.3 |
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.13 | >=2.7.0,<2.7.2 | 2.7.2 |
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.13 | >=2.8.0,<2.8.1 | 2.8.1 |
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients | >=2.0.0,<2.6.3 | 2.6.3 |
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients | >=2.7.0,<2.7.2 | 2.7.2 |
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients | >=2.8.0,<2.8.1 | 2.8.1 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38153
- https://github.com/apache/kafka
- https://kafka.apache.org/cve-list
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r26390c8b09ecfa356582d665b0c01f4cdcf16ac047c85f9f9f06a88c@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r26390c8b09ecfa356582d665b0c01f4cdcf16ac047c85f9f9f06a88c@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r35322aec467ddae34002690edaa4d9f16e7df9b5bf7164869b75b62c@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r45cc0602d5f2cbb72e48896dfadf5e5b87ed85630449598b40e8f0be@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r45cc0602d5f2cbb72e48896dfadf5e5b87ed85630449598b40e8f0be@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd9ef217b09fdefaf32a4e1835b59b96629542db57e1f63edb8b006e6@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd9ef217b09fdefaf32a4e1835b59b96629542db57e1f63edb8b006e6@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
- https://support.confluent.io/hc/en-us/articles/4407632156692-CVE-2021-38153-Confluent-Platform-Vulnerability-Timing-attacks
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.