[KAFKA-12389] Upgrade of netty-codec due to CVE-2021-21290

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 2.7.1, 2.6.2
• Component/s: security
• Assignee: Dongjin Lee
• Reporter: Dominique Mongelli
• Created: 01/Mar/21 09:34
• Updated: 30/Mar/21 14:35
• Resolved: 03/Mar/21 04:28

Description

Our security tool raised the following security flaw on kafka 2.7: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21290

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 4.1.59.Final: https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-5mcr-gq6c-3hq2

Issue Links

• is cloned by: KAFKA-12583 Upgrade of netty-codec due to CVE-2021-21295
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10235