Spring Kafka's retry topic infrastructure did not sufficiently validate user-controlled header values before acting on them. A producer could send a record with a crafted retry_topic-attempts header to supply an out-of-range attempt count and cause the retry topic router to misidentify where the message was in the retry sequence. 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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Description Spring Kafka's retry topic infrastructure did not sufficiently validate user-controlled header values before acting on them. A producer could send a record with a crafted retry_topic-attempts header to supply an out-of-range attempt count and cause the retry topic router to misidentify where the message was in the retry sequence. 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.
Title In Spring for Apache Kafka, forged retry topic headers subvert retry routing and backoff behavior
Weaknesses CWE-20
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{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2026-06-09T23:49:10.215Z

Updated: 2026-06-10T17:34:39.609Z

Reserved: 2026-04-22T06:21:39.014Z

Link: CVE-2026-41727

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-06-10T17:34:03.504Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-06-10T00:16:52.143

Modified: 2026-06-10T19:24:04.320

Link: CVE-2026-41727

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