[KAFKA-14660] Divide by zero security vulnerability (sonatype-2019-0422)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.2
• Fix Version/s: 3.5.0, 3.4.1
• Component/s: streams
• Assignee: Matthias J. Sax
• Reporter: Andy Coates
• Created: 30/Jan/23 12:30
• Updated: 08/Feb/23 05:40
• Resolved: 04/Feb/23 08:49

Description

Looks like SonaType has picked up a "Divide by Zero" issue reported in a PR and, because the PR was never merged, is now reporting it as a security vulnerability in the latest Kafka Streams library.

 

See:
 * [Vulnerability: sonatype-2019-0422](https://ossindex.sonatype.org/vulnerability/sonatype-2019-0422?component-type=maven&component-name=org.apache.kafka%2Fkafka-streams&utm_source=ossindex-client&utm_medium=integration&utm_content=1.7.0)

 * [Original PR](https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/7414)

 

While it looks from the comments made by mjsax and bbejeck that the divide-by-zero is not really an issue, the fact that its now being reported as a vulnerability is, especially with regulators.

PITA, but we should consider either getting this vulnerability removed (Google wasn't very helpful in providing info on how to do this), or fixed (Again, not sure how to tag the fix as fixing this issue).  One option may just be to reopen the PR and merge (and then fix forward by switching it to throw an exception).

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub PR#13175