CVE-2026-59317CWE-1284

CVE-2026-59317

Medium · published August 28, 2026

CVSS v3.1

6.5

EPSS

Percentile

35.2

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory reads the retry_topic-original-timestamp header from an inbound ConsumerRecord and passes its raw bytes directly to new BigInteger(header.value()) with no length or format validation.

Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0

Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 - 4.0.6

Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0 - 3.3.16

Spring for Apache Kafka 2.9.0 - 2.9.14

Spring for Apache Kafka 2.8.12 and earlier

The record

Technical detail

CVSS v3.1: 6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0: Not supplied
EPSS: 0.00420 · 35.2th percentile
Weakness: CWE-1284 · Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
Published: 2026-08-28T00:17Z

Affected products (5)

Product	Versions	Fixed in
vmware/spring_for_apache_kafka	≤ 2.8.12	—
vmware/spring_for_apache_kafka	≥ 2.9.0, ≤ 2.9.14	—
vmware/spring_for_apache_kafka	≥ 3.0.0, ≤ 3.3.16	—
vmware/spring_for_apache_kafka	≥ 4.0.0, < 4.0.7	4.0.7
vmware/spring_for_apache_kafka	≥ 4.1.0, < 4.1.1	4.1.1

References (1)

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-59317 · [email protected]

EPSS history

Timeline

27 AUG 18:04Z
In Spring for Apache Kafka, missing header validation in DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory enables denial of service via a poison-pill loop
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