CVE-2026-59317: VMware Spring For Apache Kafka

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• VMware Spring For Apache Kafka: up to and including 2.8.12; from 2.9.0, up to and including 2.9.14; from 3.0.0, up to and including 3.3.16; from 4.0.0, before 4.0.7 (fixed in 4.0.7); from 4.1.0, before 4.1.1 (fixed in 4.1.1)

Published 2026-08-27. Last modified 2026-09-04.