CVE-2024-31141
published 2024-11-19CVE-2024-31141: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties, Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Apache Kafka Clients. Apache Kafka Clients accept…
PriorityP341medium6.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRLUINSUCHINAN
EPSS
1.13%
62.7th percentile
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 2.3.0 through 3.5.2, 3.6.2, 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.
Affected
6 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | kafka | — | — |
| apache | kafka | 2.3.0 – 3.5.2 | — |
| apache | kafka | 3.6.0 – 3.6.2 | — |
| apache_software_foundation | apache_kafka_clients | — | — |
| apache_software_foundation | apache_kafka_clients | 2.3.0 – 3.5.2 | — |
| apache_software_foundation | apache_kafka_clients | 3.6.0 – 3.6.2 | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.16.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
vendor_oracle6.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM
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OSV
Apache Kafka Clients: Privilege escalation to filesystem read-access via automatic ConfigProvider
osv·2024-11-19
CVE-2024-31141 [MEDIUM] Apache Kafka Clients: Privilege escalation to filesystem read-access via automatic ConfigProvider
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
GHSA
Apache Kafka Clients: Privilege escalation to filesystem read-access via automatic ConfigProvider
ghsa·2024-11-19
CVE-2024-31141 [MEDIUM] CWE-269 Apache Kafka Clients: Privilege escalation to filesystem read-access via automatic ConfigProvider
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
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Communications Applications Risk Matrix: Third Party (Apache Kafka) — CVE-2024-31141
vendor_oracle·2025-07-15·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2024-31141 [MEDIUM] Oracle Oracle Communications Applications Risk Matrix: Third Party (Apache Kafka) — CVE-2024-31141
Oracle Oracle Communications Applications Risk Matrix: Third Party (Apache Kafka) vulnerability
CVE: CVE-2024-31141
CVSS: 6.5
Protocol: HTTP
Remote exploit: No
Affected versions: Network
Advisory: cpujul2025 (JUL 2025)
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Communications Applications Risk Matrix: Microservices (Apache Kafka) — CVE-2024-31141
vendor_oracle·2025-04-15·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2024-31141 [MEDIUM] Oracle Oracle Communications Applications Risk Matrix: Microservices (Apache Kafka) — CVE-2024-31141
Oracle Oracle Communications Applications Risk Matrix: Microservices (Apache Kafka) vulnerability
CVE: CVE-2024-31141
CVSS: 6.5
Protocol: HTTP
Remote exploit: No
Affected versions: Network
Advisory: cpuapr2025 (APR 2025)
Red Hat
kafka-clients: privilege escalation to filesystem read-access via automatic ConfigProvider
vendor_redhat·2024-11-19·CVSS 6.5
CVE-2024-31141 [MEDIUM] CWE-73 kafka-clients: privilege escalation to filesystem read-access via automatic ConfigProvider
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 Apach
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2024-11-19
Published