Kafka lets unauthorized principals read broker files (CVE-2026-112375)
An authenticated principal with no grants can make a broker return a host file or environment variable.
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An authenticated principal with no grants can make a broker return a host file or environment variable.
Builds before 4.2.2 and 4.3.2 can reveal configuration-provider values through the connector validation endpoint.

The October 26 notice names affected lines but gives no CVE identifiers, impact, or fixed RHEL versions.
Authors report Gradient Boosting and LightGBM F1-scores up to 0.9229 on four noisy attack datasets with low mitigation latency.
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