Cruise Controls Jetty ConstraintSecurityHandler registers security constraints on exact path specs without a catch-all wildcard constraint and without calling setDenyUncoveredHttpMethods(true). The servlet routes requests using Path.of(pathInfo).getFileName(), which strips all leading segments and trailing slashes. Requests like POST /kafkacruisecontrol/x/rebalance bypass authentication entirely but still dispatch to admin endpoints. All 15 admin endpoints become reachable without authentication. In AMQ Streams, the Strimzi operators NetworkPolicy restricts Cruise Control port 9090 to operator pods only, reducing effective severity to Important.
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.