Medium, CVSS 6.5NuGetPublished
CoreWCF: Kafka consume pump halts permanently on a Kafka tombstone (null-value record), causing persistent endpoint denial of service.
CVE-2026-54775 · GHSA-m744-jhq9-ppw6
- Affected
- NuGet corewcf.kafka < 1.8.1; >= 1.9.0, < 1.9.1
- Fixed in
- 1.8.11.9.1· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Impact A CoreWCF service is running and listening on a Kafka topic receiving a null-value record will stop processing new records from that topic. Preconditions The attacker has produce/write permission on a topic that CoreWCF is consuming from. If the broker permits anonymous publishes, no authentication is required. Patches Fixed in CoreWCF v1.8.1 and v1.9.1 Workarounds Only allow authenticated writes to a topic
Recommended action: Upgrade to 1.9.1 or 1.8.1 by release line, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.