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Vulnerability details: VCID-fted-1y3h-tye2
Vulnerability ID VCID-fted-1y3h-tye2
Aliases CVE-2017-12610
GHSA-xm78-4m3g-7wm7
Summary In Apache Kafka 0.10.0.0 to 0.10.2.1 and 0.11.0.0 to 0.11.0.1, authenticated Kafka clients may use impersonation via a manually crafted protocol message with SASL/PLAIN or SASL/SCRAM authentication when using the built-in PLAIN or SCRAM server implementations in Apache Kafka.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-287 Improper Authentication
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.4 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-12610.json
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00371 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
epss 0.00684 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xm78-4m3g-7wm7
cvssv3.1 6.8 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f@%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f@%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
cvssv3.1 6.8 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442@%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442@%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
cvssv3.1 6.8 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b6157be1a09df332294213bd21e90dcf9fe4c1810193be54620e4210@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b6157be1a09df332294213bd21e90dcf9fe4c1810193be54620e4210@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
cvssv3.1 6.8 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc@%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc@%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E
cvssv3.1 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12610
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12610
cvssv3.1 6.8 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
generic_textual MODERATE https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
cvssv3.1 6.8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104899
generic_textual MODERATE http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104899
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-12610.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-12610
https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/0b4daa4bf48517b4b3e9cda11692e80ade620b0
https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/47c2753496875db2849065ad91ee03c7c842c8e
https://github.com/apache/kafka/commit/9f3468645b968761ca9141d18337cb6adadbae9
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f@%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442@%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b6157be1a09df332294213bd21e90dcf9fe4c1810193be54620e4210@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc@%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104899
1611049 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1611049
CVE-2017-12610 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12610
GHSA-xm78-4m3g-7wm7 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xm78-4m3g-7wm7
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-12610.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f@%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442@%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b6157be1a09df332294213bd21e90dcf9fe4c1810193be54620e4210@%3Cusers.kafka.apache.org%3E
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc@%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12610
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104899
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.58813
EPSS Score 0.00371
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T12:38:15.013160+00:00 ProjectKB MSRImporter Import https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAP/project-kb/master/MSR2019/dataset/vulas_db_msr2019_release.csv 38.0.0