High [CVE-2026-41731] JsonKafkaHeaderMapper and the deprecated DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper matched type headers against trusted packages using a prefix…
This high-severity VMware (Broadcom) advisory covers CVE-2026-41731.
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Summary
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.
- 4.0.0
- 4.0.5
- 3.3.0
- 3.3.15
- 3.2.0
- 3.2.13
- 2.9.0
- 2.9.13
- 2.8.0
- 2.8.11
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