JsonKafkaHeaderMapper and the deprecated DefaultKafkaHeaderMapper matched type headers against trusted packages using a prefix check, meaning that trusting any package implicitly trusted all of its subpackages. Combined with Jackson's default bean deserialization, a producer could supply crafted header values that caused the consumer to deserialize arbitrary JDK types.
Affected versions: Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 through 4.0.5; 3.3.0 through 3.3.15; 3.2.0 through 3.2.13; 2.9.0 through 2.9.13; 2.8.0 through 2.8.11.
{
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-06-12T21:51:09Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2026-06-10T00:16:52Z",
"severity": "HIGH",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-502"
]
}