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In Spring for Apache Kafka, unbounded delegate cache keyed on user-controlled, potentially malicious selector header

GHSA-xvfq-4q6q-gxx7 · CVE-2026-41726

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Description

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.

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