Kroxylicious: missing upstream kafka tls hostname verification
Priority LOW 29CWE-297Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 1 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-295.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00378 31st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial kroxylicious: 0.80.0io.kroxylicious:kroxylicious-runtime (Maven): 0.8.0Red Hat: 1 advisoryRed Hat: 1 fixed, 1 without a fix
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
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Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | kroxylicious | 0.80.0 to before 0.80.0 | 0.80.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| Red Hat | Streams for Apache Kafka 2.8.0 | — | — | Not affected | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka | — | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| — | io.kroxylicious:kroxylicious-runtime (Maven) | before 0.8.0 | 0.8.0 | Patch available | GHSA-h83p-72jv-g7vp |
- kroxylicious Vendor— Affected 0.80.0 to before 0.80.0 Fixed in 0.80.0 Patch available CNA
- Streams for Apache Kafka 2.8.0 VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — Not affected CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- streams for Apache Kafka VendorRed Hat Affected — Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- io.kroxylicious:kroxylicious-runtime (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 0.8.0 Fixed in 0.8.0 Patch available GHSA-h83p-72jv-g7vp
Remediation
- Fix · CNA kroxylicious Fixed in 0.80.0
- Fix · GHSA-h83p-72jv-g7vp io.kroxylicious:kroxylicious-runtime (Maven) Fixed in 0.8.0 Advisory →
Red Hat 1 advisory
- RHSA-2024:9571 Released 2024-11-13 · Red Hat rating ModerateStreams for Apache Kafka 2.8.0 release and security update
- Streams for Apache Kafka 2.8.0
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| streams for Apache Kafka | Affected | No fix yet |
| Streams for Apache Kafka 2.8.0 | Fixed | RHSA-2024:9571 |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-8285
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-h83p-72jv-g7vp
References
Sources
- CVE-2024-8285 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-8285 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-h83p-72jv-g7vp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-8285 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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