Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 19, 2026
CoreWCF: Kafka consume pump halts permanently on a Kafka tombstone (null-value record), causing persistent endpoint denial of service.
CVE-2026-54775
Description
Impact
A CoreWCF service is running and listening on a Kafka topic receiving a null-value record will stop processing new records from that topic.
Preconditions
The attacker has produce/write permission on a topic that CoreWCF is consuming from. If the broker permits anonymous publishes, no authentication is required.
Patches
Fixed in CoreWCF v1.8.1 and v1.9.1
Workarounds
Only allow authenticated writes to a topic
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Affected packages
Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
CoreWCF.KafkaNuGet | < 1.8.1 | 1.8.1 |
CoreWCF.KafkaNuGet | >= 1.9.0, < 1.9.1 | 1.9.1 |
Affected products
1Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2News mentions
1- CoreWCF: 13 CVEs Disclosed in a Single Day — Critical SAML Bypass and WS-Security FlawsVypr Intelligence · Jun 19, 2026