CVE-2026-41731
HIGH
8,1
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: high
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: high
Integrity: high
Availability: high
Description
AI Translation Available
JsonKafkaHeaderMapper and the deprecated DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper matched type headers against trusted packages using a prefix check, meaning that trusting any package implicitly trusted all of its subpackages. Combined with Jackson's default bean deserialization, a producer could supply crafted header values that caused the consumer to deserialize arbitrary JDK types.
Affected versions:
Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 through 4.0.5; 3.3.0 through 3.3.15; 3.2.0 through 3.2.13; 2.9.0 through 2.9.13; 2.8.0 through 2.8.11.
502
Deserialization of Untrusted Data
DraftCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Integrity
Availability
Other
Potential Impacts:
Modify Application Data
Unexpected State
Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu)
Varies By Context
Applicable Platforms
Languages:
Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, JavaScript
Technologies:
Not Technology-Specific, ICS/OT, AI/ML
https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-41731