High severity · published Oct 22, 2026
CVE-2026-112331
Motor.NET < 0.19.0 Kafka Denial of Service via Structured CloudEvent Mapping
New
7.5
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 52% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MO
motornet · GDATASoftwareAG
before 0.19.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112331
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-112331
github.com
https://github.com/GDATASoftwareAG/motornet/commit/b4b6979f5dd7447dd02312e27d766ae2e9d050c2
github.com
https://github.com/GDATASoftwareAG/motornet/pull/1785
github.com
https://github.com/GDATASoftwareAG/motornet/releases/tag/v0.19.0
www.vulncheck.com
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/motor-net-kafka-denial-of-service-via-cloudevents-handler
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