CVE-2026-85246: Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in Apache Camel Mina component
CVE-2026-85246 key facts
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalogue checked )
- Highest advisory rating
- Medium
- CVSS base score
- 5.3 (Apache), 5.3 (Red Hat)
- Weakness
- CWE-209
- Fixed releases
- Apache: 4.18.5, 4.22.1
- Red Hat: 4.23.0, 4.18, 4.18.5, 4.22, 4.22.1
- Listed by VulniPulse
- Record changed
Ratings, versions and fixes are quoted from the vendor advisories that cover only CVE-2026-85246; each belongs to its advisory, not to every product listed. How records are collected and checked.
How do I fix CVE-2026-85246?
Upgrade to a fixed release named by the vendor:
- Apache: 4.18.5, 4.22.1
- Red Hat: 4.23.0, 4.18, 4.18.5, 4.22, 4.22.1
- Upgrade to Apache Camel 4.23.0, which fixes the issue. (Apache)
- Users on the 4.18.x LTS releases stream should upgrade to 4.18.5. (Apache)
Vendor advisories for CVE-2026-85246
Apache
1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium5.3
Medium [CVE-2026-85246] Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in Apache Camel Mina component
CVE-2026-85246Source published Source updated
Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information vulnerability in Apache Camel Mina component. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.0.0 before 4.18.5, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.1. When processing of an exchange failed, the Mina consumer wrote exchange.getException() straight back over the socket to the remote peer. Over a textline codec that hands the peer the exception's class name and message; over the object codec it hands over the serialised exception, cause chain included. A remote peer able to provoke a failure could therefore read internal detail about the deployment - class and package names, and whatever a message or nested cause happens to carry, which in practice can include paths, host names and connection detail. The consumer had no option to suppress this…
- Affected products in this advisory
- Apache Camel Mina
- Source-reported affected versions
- 4.0.0 before 4.18.5
- 4.19.0 before 4.22.1
- Source-reported fixed versions
- 4.18.5
- 4.22.1
- Mitigation guidance
- Upgrade to Apache Camel 4.23.0, which fixes the issue.
- Users on the 4.18.x LTS releases stream should upgrade to 4.18.5.
- Users on the 4.22.x LTS releases stream should upgrade to 4.22.1.
- For deployments that cannot upgrade immediately, add an onException handler that sets the reply body explicitly, so the framework never writes the exception back to the peer.
Red Hat
1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium5.3
Medium [CVE-2026-85246] Information disclosure via exception error messages
CVE-2026-85246Source published Source updated
Information disclosure via exception error messages. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 5.3). Weakness: CWE-209. Affected product named by the advisory: Red Hat Fuse 7.
- Related products — impact not confirmed
- Red Hat Fuse 7
- Source-reported affected versions
- < 4.0.0
- < 4.18.5
- < 4.19.0
- < 4.22.1
- Source-reported fixed versions
- 4.23.0
- 4.18
- 4.18.5
- 4.22
1 more entries in the full advisory.
- Mitigation guidance
- No mitigation guidance extracted; consult the source.
References
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