CVE-2026-35554
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Apache Kafka Clients: Kafka Producer Message Corruption and Misrouting via Buffer Pool Race Condition
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients | >=2.8.0,<3.9.2 | 3.9.2 |
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients | >=4.0.0,<4.0.2 | 4.0.2 |
| Maven | org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients | >=4.1.0,<4.1.2 | 4.1.2 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35554
- https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/21065
- https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/21285
- https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/21286
- https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/21287
- https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/21288
- https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/1df2ac5b2ba4d1b5ed54b895ff6fb9539303ccb5
- https://github.com/apache/kafka
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-19012
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/f07x7j8ovyqhjd1to25jsnqbm6wj01d6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/07/6
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-35554.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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