Kafbat UI is a web user interface for managing Apache Kafka clusters. An unsafe deserialization vulnerability in version 1.0.0 allows any unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the server. Version 1.1.0 fixes the issue.
Weakness
The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.
Potential Mitigations
- Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
- An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.
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