CVE record · CVE-2026-105949

Cruise-control: streams for apache kafka cruise control: authentication bypass via extra path segment allows unauthenticated access to all admin endpoints

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0033 · 26th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 20 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Not given Package name: Cruise Control for Apache Kafka https://github.com/cruise-control-for-kafka/cruise-control	affected 2.0.82 to before 3.1.0 semver Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	streams for Apache Kafka 2 Package name: cruise-control https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	streams for Apache Kafka 3 Package name: cruise-control https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-105949
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-287
Tags: Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 2
Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 3
Authentication bypass
Published: 20 Oct 2026
Updated: 3 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0033, the 26th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

20 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
20 Oct 2026, 12:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-105949 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510878 issue-trackingredhat
github.com/cruise-control-for-kafka/cruise-control/commit/0680880be8483e87a39832de807b68d5e9918325

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