Red Hat Lightwell has released org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients 3.6.2.rhlw-00004 with backported fixes for CVE-2024-31141, CVE-2025-27817, CVE-2026-33558, and CVE-2026-35554.
CVE-2024-31141: Apache Kafka Clients: Privilege escalation to filesystem read-access via automatic ConfigProvider
CVE-2025-27817: Apache Kafka Client: Arbitrary file read and SSRF vulnerability
CVE-2026-33558: Apache Kafka, Apache Kafka Clients: Information Exposure Through Network Client Log Output
CVE-2026-35554: Apache Kafka Clients: Kafka Producer Message Corruption and Misrouting via Buffer Pool Race Condition
This patched artifact is a drop-in replacement for org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients 3.6.2 from Maven Central.