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CVE-2026-110952: Apache Kafka: Broker does not enforce JWT issuer and audience validation for SASL/OAUTHBEARER by default

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Apache Kafka versions 3.1.0 before 4.4.0 have CVE-2026-110952 because the broker does not enforce JWT issuer and audience validation by default for SASL/OAUTHBEARER.

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Posted by Manikumar on Oct 28 Severity: moderate Affected versions: - Apache Kafka 3.1.0 before 4.4.0 Description: A Kafka broker that authenticates clients with SASL/OAUTHBEARER using the bundled JWKS-backed validator always verifies the JWT signature, but two further checks are only performed when explicitly configured: - The issuer (iss) claim is verified only when sasl.oauthbearer.expected.issuer is set. When it is unset, a validly-signed token carrying the expected...