Summary

Apache Kafka Clients are vulnerable to improper privilege management due to the use of ConfigProvider plugins that can read from disk or environment variables. This could allow an attacker to read arbitrary contents of the disk and environment variables, potentially escalating from REST API access to filesystem/environment access.

Products Affected

• Brocade ASCG versions before 3.3.0

Products Not Affected

• Brocade Fabric OS
  [VEX Justification: Component_not_present]
• Brocade SANnav
  [VEX Justification: Vulnerable_code_cannot_be_controlled_by_adversary]

Solution

• Security update provided in Brocade ASCG 3.3.0

Revision History

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