### [CVE-2019-12399](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12399) ![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Kafka&color=blue) ![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue) ![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=Information%20Disclosure&color=brighgreen) ### Description When Connect workers in Apache Kafka 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, or 2.3.0 are configured with one or more config providers, and a connector is created/updated on that Connect cluster to use an externalized secret variable in a substring of a connector configuration property value, then any client can issue a request to the same Connect cluster to obtain the connector's task configuration and the response will contain the plaintext secret rather than the externalized secrets variables. ### POC #### Reference - https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html - https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html - https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html - https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html #### Github No PoCs found on GitHub currently.