Motor.NET before 0.19.0 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that allows a remote attacker who can produce records to a consumed topic to crash the service permanently by sending a single crafted record. By setting the content-type header to application/cloudevents+json and omitting required CloudEvent attributes (id, source, type), the attacker triggers an ArgumentException in KafkaMessageConsumer.SingleMessageHandlingAsync that is treated as fatal, causing the host to stop and re-process the same poison record on every restart, resulting in a permanent crash-loop.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00679.

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
GDATASoftwareAG motornet unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected < 0.19.0

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References
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https://github.com/GDATASoftwareAG/motornet/commit/b4b6979f5dd7447dd02312e27d766ae2e9d050c2 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/GDATASoftwareAG/motornet/pull/1785 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/GDATASoftwareAG/motornet/releases/tag/v0.19.0 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/motor-net-kafka-denial-of-service-via-cloudevents-handler cve-icon cve-icon
History

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:45:00 +0000

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Description Motor.NET before 0.19.0 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that allows a remote attacker who can produce records to a consumed topic to crash the service permanently by sending a single crafted record. By setting the content-type header to application/cloudevents+json and omitting required CloudEvent attributes (id, source, type), the attacker triggers an ArgumentException in KafkaMessageConsumer.SingleMessageHandlingAsync that is treated as fatal, causing the host to stop and re-process the same poison record on every restart, resulting in a permanent crash-loop.
Title Motor.NET < 0.19.0 Kafka Denial of Service via Structured CloudEvent Mapping
Weaknesses CWE-755
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-23T13:28:32.139Z

Reserved: 2026-10-19T14:41:46.700Z

Link: CVE-2026-112331

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-22T20:17:05.750

Modified: 2026-10-23T17:06:36.030

Link: CVE-2026-112331

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Updated: 2026-10-23T03:15:16Z

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