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Insufficient Entropy Affecting org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients package, versions [2.1.0,2.1.1)

0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEKAFKA-73631
  • published 22 Jan 2019
  • disclosed 22 Jan 2019
  • credit Victor Sartori
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Introduced: 22 Jan 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-331 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients to version 2.1.1 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients is a streaming platform that can publish and subscribe to streams of records, store streams of records in a fault-tolerant durable way, and process streams of records as they occur.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Entropy because in the ExpiringCredentialRefreshingLogin, the number generated by Random has a low entropy therefore more predictable.