- What: Security update for Red Hat JBoss EAP 8.1.7 XP 6.0.5.GA
- Impact: Addresses information disclosure and data corruption vulnerability in Kafka clients
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:42098 - Security Advisory Issued: 2026-07-20 Updated: 2026-07-20 RHSA-2026:42098 - Security Advisory Overview Synopsis Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.7 XP 6.0.5.GA release Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic JBoss EAP XP 6.0.5.GA release on the EAP 8.1 base. See references for release notes. Description This is a cumulative patch release zip for the JBoss EAP XP 6.0.5 runtime distribution for use with EAP 8.1.7. Security Fix(es): kafka-clients: Apache Kafka Clients: Information disclosure and data corruption due to race condition in producer buffer management (CVE-2026-35554) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Solution Before applying the update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. Also, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Affected Products JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64 Fixes BZ - 2455916 - CVE-2026-35554 Apache Kafka Clients: Apache Kafka Clients: Information disclosure and data corruption due to race condition in producer buffer management JBEAP-32491 - Tracker for EAP XP 6.0.0.GA on EAP 8.1.7 CVEs CVE-2026-35554 References https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/8.1 https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/8.1/html-single/red_hat_jboss_eap_xp_6.0_release_notes/index The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ .