[KAFKA-12583] Upgrade of netty-codec due to CVE-2021-21295

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0
• Component/s: security
• Assignee: Ben Chen
• Reporter: Dominique Mongelli
• Created: 30/Mar/21 14:35
• Updated: 03/Apr/21 00:48
• Resolved: 01/Apr/21 13:19

Description

Our security tool raised the following security flaw on kafka 2.7: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21295

It is a vulnerability related to jar netty-codec-4.1.51.Final.jar.

Looking at source code, the netty-codec in trunk and 2.7.0 branches are still vulnerable.

Based on netty issue tracker, the vulnerability is fixed in 4.1.60.Final: https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-wm47-8v5p-wjpj

Issue Links

• is a clone of: KAFKA-12389 Upgrade of netty-codec due to CVE-2021-21290
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10448