CVE-2026-41726

When an application opts into DelegatingDeserializer, a producer can grow the consumer's heap without bound by sending records with unique random spring.kafka.serialization.selector header values, eventually causing GC thrash and OutOfMemoryError. Affected versions: Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 through 4.0.5; 3.3.0 through 3.3.15; 3.2.0 through 3.2.13; 2.9.0 through 2.9.13; 2.8.0 through 2.8.11.

Score
CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium
Status
Analyzed - security@vmware.com
Published
2026-06-10
Last modified
2026-06-27
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Affected products

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