Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-10. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
When an application opts into DelegatingDeserializer, a producer can grow the consumer's heap without bound by sending records with unique random spring.kafka.serialization.selector header values, eventually causing GC thrash and OutOfMemoryError.
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.
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June 10, 2026
July 23, 2026
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka | 1.0.0.RELEASE ... 2.8.9 (160 versions) | — | — |
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CWE-770
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