kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in SCRAM authentication handling that allows a malicious or machine-in-the-middle broker to freeze the client event loop by supplying an excessively large iteration count. In scram.py, ScramClient.process_server_first_message() passes the broker-controlled SCRAM iteration count directly to hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac() without validation, blocking producer sends, consumer polls, admin operations, and heartbeats, which can cause consumer group eviction and repeated reconnect failures.
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Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0000
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| Description | kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in SCRAM authentication handling that allows a malicious or machine-in-the-middle broker to freeze the client event loop by supplying an excessively large iteration count. In scram.py, ScramClient.process_server_first_message() passes the broker-controlled SCRAM iteration count directly to hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac() without validation, blocking producer sends, consumer polls, admin operations, and heartbeats, which can cause consumer group eviction and repeated reconnect failures. | |
| Title | kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 DoS via SCRAM Iteration Count in scram.py | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-06-10T20:22:39.262Z
Reserved: 2026-05-29T21:38:34.147Z
Link: CVE-2026-10143
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-06-10T22:16:55.503
Modified: 2026-06-10T22:16:55.503
Link: CVE-2026-10143
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-06-10T23:30:44Z