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Medium 6.5Published Aug 27, 2026

CVE-2026-59317In Spring for Apache Kafka, missing header validation in DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory enables denial of service via a poison-pill loop

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It affects Spring for Apache Kafka and 1 other product. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

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

CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1284
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
vmware
NVD analysis
Analyzed
Record last updated
Aug 28, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Spring Spring for Apache Kafka
spring:for_apache_kafka (from the name)
4.1.0; from 4.0.0 through 4.0.6; from 3.0.0 through 3.3.16; from 2.9.0 through 2.9.14; through 2.8.12
CNA record
vmware spring_for_apache_kafka
vmware:spring_for_apache_kafka
through 2.8.12; from 2.9.0 through 2.9.14; from 3.0.0 through 3.3.16; from 4.0.0 before 4.0.7; from 4.1.0 before 4.1.1
NVD

References

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