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CVE-2026-71300 and CVE-2026-55993: Improper input validation vulnerability in Apache Camel Atmosphere Websocket component

This Apache advisory covers CVE-2026-71300 and CVE-2026-55993 in Apache Camel Atmosphere. Its rating, versions and guidance apply to the bulletin as a whole, not to each of its 2 CVEs.

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Key facts

Bulletin rating
Critical, CVSS 9.8
Affected
4.0.0 before 4.14.9; 4.15.0 before 4.18.4; 4.19.0 before 4.22.0
Fixed in
4.14.9, 4.18.4, 4.22.0
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Source revised
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Affected products & platforms

Apache Software FoundationMessaging

Description

Improper input validation vulnerability in Apache Camel Atmosphere Websocket component.

This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.0.0 before 4.14.9, from 4.15.0 before 4.18.4, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.0.

The camel-atmosphere-websocket producer selects which connected WebSocket peers a message is delivered to through Exchange headers, and the string values of those headers sat outside the Camel namespace: websocket.connectionKey and websocket.connectionKey.list, along with websocket.sendToAll, websocket.eventType and websocket.errorType.

WebsocketEndpoint extends ServletEndpoint and so inherits HttpHeaderFilterStrategy, which filters only the Camel and camel prefixes; the dotted names therefore fell outside the filtered namespace and were admitted in both directions by every HTTP-family consumer.

In a route bridging an HTTP consumer into an atmosphere-websocket producer, an external sender could supply the list header and take over the producer's dispatch decision.

WebsocketProducer.process tests the list header before the single-key header, so an injected value discarded the recipient the route had selected: a notification intended for one connected client could be suppressed, or delivered instead to a different client whose connection key the sender knows.

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Affected versions
  • 4.0.0 before 4.14.9
  • 4.15.0 before 4.18.4
  • 4.19.0 before 4.22.0

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Fix and mitigation

Fixed releases named by the bulletin:

  • 4.14.9
  • 4.18.4
  • 4.22.0

Vendor guidance

  • Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.22.0, which fixes the issue.
  • If users are on the 4.14.x LTS releases stream, then they are suggested to upgrade to 4.14.9.
  • If users are on the 4.18.x releases stream, then they are suggested to upgrade to 4.18.4.
  • For deployments that cannot upgrade immediately, strip the dispatch headers at the trust boundary before the producer, for example with removeHeaders(“websocket.*”) placed between the HTTP consumer and the atmosphere-websocket producer.
  • Note that the fix renames the header string values into the Camel namespace, which is a breaking change for routes that set them by literal string: routes referencing the WebsocketConstants fields symbolically are unaffected, and the change is documented in the upgrade guides.

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