{"@context":"https://openvex.dev/ns/v0.2.0","@id":"https://database.harborguard.co/cve/CVE-2026-10143/vex.json","author":"HarborGuard Database","role":"Document Creator","timestamp":"2026-06-11T13:24:52.138Z","version":1,"tooling":"HarborGuard Database (https://database.harborguard.co)","statements":[{"vulnerability":{"name":"CVE-2026-10143","@id":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-10143","description":"kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in SCRAM authentication handling that allows a malicious or machine-in-the-middle broker to freeze the client event loop by supplying an excessively large iteration count. In scram.py, ScramClient.process_server_first_message() passes the broker-controlled SCRAM iteration count directly to hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac() without validation, blocking producer sends, consumer polls, admin operations, and heartbeats, which can cause consu"},"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":"2026-06-11T13:24:52.138Z"}]}