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CVE-2024-8285

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-8285 describes a hostname verification flaw in Kroxylicious when establishing TLS connections to upstream Kafka servers, affecting Red Hat Kroxylicious. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) requires a high-complexity, high-privilege Man-in-the-Middle attack or compromise of external systems like DNS to succeed, potentially impacting data integrity and confidentiality. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:kroxylicious:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.7
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 687 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (25)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: io.kroxylicious:kroxylicious-runtimeFixed in: 0.8.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Streams for Apache Kafka 2.8.0Fixed in: io.kroxylicious-kroxylicious-parent
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-app
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-app-licenses
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-filter-test-support
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-integration-test-support
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-kms
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-kms-provider-hashicorp-vault
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-kms-provider-hashicorp-vault-test-support
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-kms-provider-kroxylicious-inmemory
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-kms-provider-kroxylicious-inmemory-test-support
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-kms-test-support
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-krpc-plugin
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-multitenant
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-record-encryption
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-record-validation
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-runtime
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-sample
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-simple-transform
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious.testing/testing-api
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious.testing/testing-impl
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious.testing/testing-junit5-extension
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-annotations
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: io.kroxylicious/kroxylicious-api

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-h83p-72jv-g7vpmedium

Missing hostname validation in Kroxylicious

Aug 31, 2024
redhatCVE-2024-8285Moderate

kroxylicious: Missing upstream Kafka TLS hostname verification

Aug 27, 2024

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:9571
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2024-8285
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory