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Package details: pkg:maven/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients@2.4.1
purl pkg:maven/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients@2.4.1
Next non-vulnerable version 3.9.1
Latest non-vulnerable version 4.1.2
Risk 3.1
Vulnerabilities affecting this package (2)
Vulnerability Summary Fixed by
VCID-26bs-85hq-ufac
Aliases:
CVE-2024-31141
GHSA-2x2g-32r7-p4x8
Apache Kafka Clients: Privilege escalation to filesystem read-access via automatic ConfigProvider Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties, Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Apache Kafka Clients. Apache Kafka Clients accept configuration data for customizing behavior, and includes ConfigProvider plugins in order to manipulate these configurations. Apache Kafka also provides FileConfigProvider, DirectoryConfigProvider, and EnvVarConfigProvider implementations which include the ability to read from disk or environment variables. In applications where Apache Kafka Clients configurations can be specified by an untrusted party, attackers may use these ConfigProviders to read arbitrary contents of the disk and environment variables. In particular, this flaw may be used in Apache Kafka Connect to escalate from REST API access to filesystem/environment access, which may be undesirable in certain environments, including SaaS products. This issue affects Apache Kafka Clients: from from 2.3.0 through 3.5.2, 3.6.0 through 3.6.2, and 3.7.0. Users with affected applications are recommended to upgrade kafka-clients to version >=3.8.0, and set the JVM system property "org.apache.kafka.automatic.config.providers=none". Users of Kafka Connect with one of the listed ConfigProvider implementations specified in their worker config are also recommended to add appropriate "allowlist.pattern" and "allowed.paths" to restrict their operation to appropriate bounds. For users of Kafka Clients or Kafka Connect in environments that trust users with disk and environment variable access, it is not recommended to set the system property. For users of the Kafka Broker, Kafka MirrorMaker 2.0, Kafka Streams, and Kafka command-line tools, it is not recommended to set the system property.
3.7.1
Affected by 1 other vulnerability.
VCID-3jvm-ph93-bfch
Aliases:
CVE-2021-38153
GHSA-3j6g-hxx5-3q26
Information Exposure Through Discrepancy Some components in Apache Kafka use `Arrays.equals` to validate a password or key, which is vulnerable to timing attacks that make brute force attacks for such credentials more likely to be successful.
2.6.3
Affected by 1 other vulnerability.
2.7.2
Affected by 1 other vulnerability.
2.8.1
Affected by 1 other vulnerability.
Vulnerabilities fixed by this package (0)
Vulnerability Summary Aliases
This package is not known to fix vulnerabilities.

Date Actor Action Vulnerability Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-16T23:15:14.398906+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-26bs-85hq-ufac https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients/CVE-2024-31141.yml 38.4.0
2026-04-16T21:31:32.429285+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-3jvm-ph93-bfch https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients/CVE-2021-38153.yml 38.4.0
2026-04-12T00:33:52.087356+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-26bs-85hq-ufac https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients/CVE-2024-31141.yml 38.3.0
2026-04-11T22:44:45.249456+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-3jvm-ph93-bfch https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients/CVE-2021-38153.yml 38.3.0
2026-04-03T00:41:36.941374+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-26bs-85hq-ufac https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients/CVE-2024-31141.yml 38.1.0
2026-04-02T22:54:44.390636+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-3jvm-ph93-bfch https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients/CVE-2021-38153.yml 38.1.0
2026-04-01T17:13:01.702884+00:00 GitLab Importer Affected by VCID-3jvm-ph93-bfch https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.apache.kafka/kafka-clients/CVE-2021-38153.yml 38.0.0