Medium

Missing hostname validation in Kroxylicious

  • Disclosed: 31.08.2024
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:21

A flaw was found in Kroxylicious. When establishing the connection with the upstream Kafka server using a TLS secured connection, Kroxylicious fails to properly verify the server's hostname, resulting in an insecure connection. For a successful attack to be performed, the attacker needs to perform a Man-in-the-Middle attack or compromise any external systems, such as DNS or network routing configuration. This issue is considered a high complexity attack, with additional high privileges required, as the attack would need access to the Kroxylicious configuration or a peer system. The result of a successful attack impacts both data integrity and confidentiality.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) io.kroxylicious:kroxylicious-runtime < 0.8.0 0.8.0

References

CVSS score 7.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-295, CWE-297
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
io.kroxylicious:kroxylicious-runtime
Disclosed
31.08.2024
Updated
11.10.2026 12:21

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-h83p-72jv-g7vp - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: io.kroxylicious:kroxylicious-runtime

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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