Vulnerability · Published Jul 8, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2026-54775CoreWCF: Kafka consume pump halts permanently on a Kafka tombstone (null-value record), causing persistent endpoint denial of service.
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in CoreWCF from CoreWCF. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
CoreWCF is a port of the service side of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to .NET Core. Prior to 1.8.1 and 1.9.1, a CoreWCF service listening on a Kafka topic stops processing new records from that topic when KafkaTransportPump receives a null-value tombstone record, causing a persistent endpoint denial of service for attackers with produce permission. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.1 and 1.9.1.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| NuGet | corewcf.kafka | 1.8.1 | GHSA-m744-jhq9-ppw6 |
| NuGet | corewcf.kafka | 1.9.1 | GHSA-m744-jhq9-ppw6 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-248, CWE-754, CWE-755 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://github.com/CoreWCF/CoreWCF/security/advisories/GHSA-m744-jhq9-ppw6 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/CoreWCF/CoreWCF/commit/1a229d0d14a07766302f7d14c866889f04a3a624 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/CoreWCF/CoreWCF/commit/6d7431ebc0ebe6521ea6d0dbea8982bac3d2bc98 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/CoreWCF/CoreWCF/commit/8f95f3ac3c929409e830b5c5659683ef9f6ea6b0 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/CoreWCF/CoreWCF/releases/tag/v1.8.1 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/CoreWCF/CoreWCF/releases/tag/v1.9.1 x_refsource_MISC