CVE-2024-56128

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Important Important Impact What does this mean?
7.4 CVSS v3 Base Score

Description

A flaw was found in Apache Kafka's implementation of the Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM), which did not fully adhere to the requirements of RFC 5802. Specifically, as per RFC 5802, the server must verify that the nonce sent by the client in the second message matches the nonce sent by the server in its first message. However, Kafka's SCRAM implementation did not perform this validation. In environments where SCRAM is operated over plaintext communication channels, an attacker with access to the exchange can intercept and potentially reuse authentication messages, leveraging the weak nonce validation to gain unauthorized access.

Statement

This vulnerability is marked with an Important severity because it compromises a fundamental security requirement of the SCRAM protocol as specified in RFC 5802 —the validation of nonces for ensuring message integrity and preventing replay attacks. Without proper nonce validation, an attacker with plaintext access to the SCRAM authentication exchange could manipulate or replay parts of the authentication process, potentially gaining unauthorized access or disrupting the integrity of authentication. While the use of plaintext communication for SCRAM is discouraged, many legacy systems or misconfigured deployments may still rely on it, making them directly susceptible.

Mitigation

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

Additional Information

External References

Content from www.cve.org is not included.https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56128

Content from nvd.nist.gov is not included.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56128

Content from datatracker.ietf.org is not included.https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5802

Content from datatracker.ietf.org is not included.https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5802#section-9

https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#security_sasl_scram_security

Content from lists.apache.org is not included.https://lists.apache.org/thread/84dh4so32lwn7wr6c5s9mwh381vx9wkw

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Products / Services Components State Errata
Red Hat Fuse 7 org.apache.kafka/kafka_2.12 Not affected
Red Hat Fuse 7 org.apache.kafka/kafka_2.13 Out of support scope
Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 org.apache.kafka/kafka_2.12 Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 kafka_2.12 Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 kafka_2.13 Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 kafka_2.12 Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 kafka_2.13 Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack kafka_2.12 Affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack kafka_2.13 Not affected
Red Hat build of Debezium 2 org.apache.kafka/kafka_2.13 Not affected
Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authorities (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications ).

CVSS v3 Score Breakdown Red Hat NVD
CVSS v3 Base Score 7.4
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact None

CVSS v3 Vector

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

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