CVE-2026-59317

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-27. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory reads the retry_topic-original-timestamp header from an inbound ConsumerRecord and passes its raw bytes directly to new BigInteger(header.value()) with no length or format validation. Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0 Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 - 4.0.6 Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.0 - 3.3.16 Spring for Apache Kafka 2.9.0 - 2.9.14 Spring for Apache Kafka 2.8.12 and earlier

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5(high)
EG Risk
29(Track)
EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity65% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
31%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 27, 2026

Last Modified

September 4, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 27, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

In Spring for Apache Kafka, missing header validation in DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory enables denial of service via a poison-pill loop

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-59317

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-59317(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 64× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-09-18 23:48 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-18 23:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-18 00:02 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-18 00:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-17 19:31 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-09-16 23:15 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-09-16 23:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-15 23:31 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-15 23:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-15 03:11 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-09-14 23:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-13 23:22 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-13 23:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-13 16:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-09-12 23:39 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-12 23:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-11 23:55 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-11 23:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-09-11 00:11 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-11 00:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-10 09:35 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-09-10 00:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-09 00:39 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-09-09 00:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-09-07 18:40 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-09-07 18:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-09-06 18:57 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-06 18:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-05 19:13 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-05 19:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-04 19:30 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-09-04 19:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-04 05:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-09-03 22:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-02 22:07 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-02 22:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-02 14:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-09-01 22:21 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-01 22:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-01 13:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-09-01 04:40 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-08-31 22:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-08-30 22:54 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-08-30 22:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  28. 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  29. 2026-08-29 23:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-08-28 23:26 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-08-28 23:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-08-28 22:49 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-08-28 22:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-08-28 21:42 UTCEPSS rescore
  35. 2026-08-28 18:59 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-08-28 18:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-08-27 20:26 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-08-27 20:16 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-08-27 20:13 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-59317?
CVE-2026-59317 is a medium vulnerability published on August 27, 2026. DeadLetterPublishingRecovererFactory reads the retry_topic-original-timestamp header from an inbound ConsumerRecord and passes its raw bytes directly to new BigInteger(header.value()) with no length or format validation. Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0 Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 - 4.0.6 Spring for…
When was CVE-2026-59317 disclosed?
CVE-2026-59317 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 27, 2026, with the most recent update on September 4, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-59317 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-59317 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 68.6% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-59317?
CVE-2026-59317 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-59317?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-59317, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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