A CoreWCF service is running and listening on a Kafka topic receiving a null-value record will stop processing new records from that topic.
The attacker has produce/write permission on a topic that CoreWCF is consuming from. If the broker permits anonymous publishes, no authentication is required.
Fixed in CoreWCF v1.8.1 and v1.9.1
Only allow authenticated writes to a topic
{
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-06-19T20:46:49Z",
"nvd_published_at": null,
"severity": "MODERATE",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-248",
"CWE-754",
"CWE-755"
]
}