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What is this endpoint?

api/v1/kafka/topics

Apache Kafka Topics API

What an attacker could do

Listing Kafka topics without authentication lets an attacker map the data architecture and, if the brokers lack ACLs, consume sensitive event streams or produce forged messages that downstream consumers trust.

How to defend it

Enable SASL/SSL authentication and topic-level ACLs on the brokers, disable plaintext listeners, and never expose broker or admin ports directly to the internet.

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