Red Hat Security Advisory: Streams for Apache Kafka 2.9.4 release and security update
Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database
Mentioned vulnerabilities
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High : upgrade Red Hat jose4j to 0.9.6 soon.
Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 22:46 UTC
- Patch
- Available – fixed in 0.9.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 17 Dec 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.
What to do
Upgrade org.bitbucket.b_c/jose4j to 0.9.6.
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
Mavenorg.bitbucket.b_c/jose4jpkg:maven/org.bitbucket.b_c/jose4jOther threats | Affected
| Fixed in
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Description
Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka, based on the Apache Kafka project, offers a distributed backbone that allows microservices and other applications to share data with extremely high throughput and extremely low latency. This release of Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka 2.9.4 serves as a replacement for Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka 2.9.3, and includes security and bug fixes, and enhancements. Security Fix(es): * jose4j: Denial of Service via compressed JWE content (CVE-2024-29371) * cluster-operator: Cross-namespace privilege escalation via Kafka.spec.entityOperator.watchedNamespace in Strimzi (CVE-2026-55225) * netty-codec-http: Netty is vulnerable to request smuggling due to incorrect parsing of chunk extensions (CVE-2025-58056) * lodash: Arbitrary code execution via untrusted input in template imports (CVE-2026-4800) * React Server Components: Denial of Service via specially crafted HTTP requests (CVE-2026-23864) * Apache ZooKeeper: Impersonation of servers or clients via reverse DNS spoofing (CVE-2026-24281) * netty-codec-http: Request smuggling via incorrect parsing of HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding extension values (CVE-2026-33870) * netty-codec-http2: Denial of Service via HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frame flood (CVE-2026-33871) * log4j-core: Invalid XML output causes denial of service in logging (CVE-2026-34480) * quarkus-vertx-http: Authorization bypass via semicolons in HTTP requests (CVE-2026-39852) * netty-codec: Denial of Service via excessive memory allocation in LZ4FrameDecoder (CVE-2026-42583) * netty-codec-http2: Denial of Service via unbounded memory allocation in HTTP content decompression (CVE-2026-42587) * netty-handler: IPv6 subnet rule bypass due to incorrect masking operation (CVE-2026-44249) * Next.js: Information disclosure due to middleware bypass in Pages Router with i18n (CVE-2026-44573) * Next.js: Authorization bypass via crafted query parameters (CVE-2026-44574) * Next.js: Unauthorized access to protected content via middleware bypass (CVE-2026-44575) * Next.js: Server-Side Request Forgery via crafted WebSocket upgrade requests (CVE-2026-44578) * Next.js: Denial of Service via crafted POST requests to server actions (CVE-2026-44579) * netty-codec-haproxy: Denial of Service via malformed HAProxy message (CVE-2026-44893) * Next.js: Information disclosure via security fix bypass in middleware with Turbopack (CVE-2026-45109) * netty-handler: Denial of Service via eager buffer allocation in TLS handshake (CVE-2026-45416) * netty-resolver-dns: Information disclosure and data manipulation due to improper CNAME record validation (CVE-2026-45674) * netty-resolver-dns: Insufficient Bailiwick Validation for NS Records (CVE-2026-47691) * netty-codec-http2: Denial of Service due to resource leak (CVE-2026-48043) * netty-codec-haproxy: Denial of Service via memory leak from crafted PROXY protocol headers (CVE-2026-48059) * netty-handler: Improper trust manager handling leads to hostname verification bypass (CVE-2026-50010) * quarkus-vertx-http: Authorization bypass in HTTP path-based policies via encoded characters (CVE-2026-50559) * lodash: Prototype pollution in _.unset and _.omit functions (CVE-2025-13465) * vertx-core: Static handler component cache can be manipulated to deny access to static files (CVE-2026-1002) * vertx-core: Denial of Service via TLS handshake with wildcard server name (CVE-2026-6860) * Apache ZooKeeper: Information disclosure via improper handling of configuration values (CVE-2026-24308) * Next.js: Unbounded next/image disk cache growth can exhaust storage (CVE-2026-27980) * DOMPurify: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via inconsistent tag sanitization (CVE-2026-41240) * axios: Invisible JSON Response Tampering via Prototype Pollution Gadget (CVE-2026-42044) * Next.js: Denial of Service via Image Optimization API (CVE-2026-44577)
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34608 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2392996 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423194 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2430180 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2431740 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2433059 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2445449 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2445451 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448509 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452453 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452456 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2453496 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2457328 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2457819 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461147 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461624 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2466990 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477187 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477188 (opens in a new tab)