CVE-2026-33557 (GCVE-0-2026-33557)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-20 13:28
Modified
2026-04-20 14:30
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CWE
- CWE-1285 - Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input
Summary
A possible security vulnerability has been identified in Apache Kafka.
By default, the broker property `sasl.oauthbearer.jwt.validator.class` is set to `org.apache.kafka.common.security.oauthbearer.DefaultJwtValidator`. It accepts any JWT token without validating its signature, issuer, or audience. An attacker can generate a JWT token from any issuer with the `preferred_username` set to any user, and the broker will accept it.
We advise the Kafka users using kafka v4.1.0 or v4.1.1 to set the config `sasl.oauthbearer.jwt.validator.class` to `org.apache.kafka.common.security.oauthbearer.BrokerJwtValidator` explicitly to avoid this vulnerability. Since Kafka v4.1.2 and v4.2.0 and later, the issue is fixed and will correctly validate the JWT token.
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Impacted products
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| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Kafka |
Version: 4.1.0 ≤ 4.1.1 |
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