CVE-2024-8285 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-8285: Kroxylicious: missing upstream kafka tls hostname verification

Vendor Red Hat
Product Streams for Apache Kafka 2.8.0
Weakness CWE-297
Published August 30, 2024
Last update November 20, 2025

CVSS base score

5.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

A flaw was found in Kroxylicious. When establishing the connection with the upstream Kafka server using a TLS secured connection, Kroxylicious fails to properly verify the server's hostname, resulting in an insecure connection. For a successful attack to be performed, the attacker needs to perform a Man-in-the-Middle attack or compromise any external systems, such as DNS or network routing configuration. This issue is considered a high complexity attack, with additional high privileges required, as the attack would need access to the Kroxylicious configuration or a peer system. The result of a successful attack impacts both data integrity and confidentiality.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 30, 2024 CVE published
November 20, 2025 Record updated