CVE-2026-112331 HIGH

CVE-2026-112331: Motor.NET < 0.19.0 Kafka Denial of Service via Structured CloudEvent Mapping

Vendor Gdatasoftwareag
Product motornet
Weakness CWE-755
Published October 22, 2026
Last update October 22, 2026

CVSS base score

8.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Motor.NET before 0.19.0 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that allows a remote attacker who can produce records to a consumed topic to crash the service permanently by sending a single crafted record. By setting the content-type header to application/cloudevents+json and omitting required CloudEvent attributes (id, source, type), the attacker triggers an ArgumentException in KafkaMessageConsumer.SingleMessageHandlingAsync that is treated as fatal, causing the host to stop and re-process the same poison record on every restart, resulting in a permanent crash-loop.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 22, 2026 CVE published
October 22, 2026 Record updated