CVE-2024-8285 – Kroxylicious: missing upstream kafka tls hostname verification

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2024-8285

30 Aug 2024 — A flaw was found in Kroxylicious. When establishing the connection with the upstream Kafka server using a TLS secured connection, Kroxylicious fails to properly verify the server's hostname, resulting in an insecure connection. For a successful attack to be performed, the attacker needs to perform a Man-in-the-Middle attack or compromise any external systems, such as DNS or network routing configuration. This issue is considered a high complexity attack, with additional high privileges required, as the atta... • https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8285 • CWE-297: Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch •