{"@context":"https://openvex.dev/ns/v0.2.0","@id":"https://database.harborguard.co/cve/CVE-2026-10142/vex.json","author":"HarborGuard Database","role":"Document Creator","timestamp":"2026-06-11T14:13:01.933Z","version":1,"tooling":"HarborGuard Database (https://database.harborguard.co)","statements":[{"vulnerability":{"name":"CVE-2026-10142","@id":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-10142","description":"kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the protocol parser that allows a malicious broker or machine-in-the-middle attacker to exhaust memory or hang connections by sending a crafted 4-byte frame length value without bounds validation. Attackers can send a specially crafted frame length through the receive_bytes() function to trigger either a multi-gigabyte memory allocation or an uncaught ValueError that leaves the connection in a broken state, causing request"},"products":[{"@id":"cpe:2.3:a:dana_powers:kafka-python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","identifiers":{"cpe23":"cpe:2.3:a:dana_powers:kafka-python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"}}],"status":"affected","action_statement":"Update to a fixed version: 2.3.2.","timestamp":"2026-06-11T14:13:01.933Z"}]}