CVE-2019-12399 – kafka: Connect REST API exposes plaintext secrets in tasks endpoint

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2019-12399

14 Jan 2020 — When Connect workers in Apache Kafka 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, or 2.3.0 are configured with one or more config providers, and a connector is created/updated on that Connect cluster to use an externalized secret variable in a substring of a connector configuration property value, then any client can issue a request to the same Connect cluster to obtain the connector's task configuration and the response will contain the plaintext secret rather than the externalized secrets variables. Cuando l... • http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/14/1 • CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information •