Apache Camel AWS SNS Header Validation Bypass

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Camel AWS SNS component. The camel-aws2-sns component filters Camel headers through a component-specific HeaderFilterStrategy, Sns2HeaderFilterStrategy. Like the sibling Sqs2HeaderFilterStrategy, it originally configured only an outbound filter (setOutFilterPattern, which blocks Camel*, breadcrumbId and org.apache.camel.* headers from being written out) and did not configure an inbound filter rule. For the related camel-aws2-sqs component this inbound gap was exploitable, because the Sqs2Consumer maps inbound SQS message attributes into the Camel Exchange via HeaderFilterStrategy.applyFilterToExternalHeaders, allowing a message sender to inject Camel control headers (tracked as CVE-2026-46456). camel-aws2-sns, by contrast, is producer-only: Sns2Endpoint does not support consumers (createConsumer throws UnsupportedOperationException, 'You cannot receive messages from this endpoint'), so no externally-supplied message attributes are eve

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Analysis

CVE-2026-56140 is a critical input validation flaw (CWE-20) in Apache Camel's AWS SNS component that fails to properly filter inbound headers before processing. The Sns2HeaderFilterStrategy only implements outbound filtering, leaving inbound SNS message headers unvalidated. This creates a vector for header injection attacks where malicious or unexpected headers can be injected into Camel message processing pipelines. Organizations deploying Apache Camel with AWS SNS integration—particularly those processing untrusted messages from SNS topics—face significant risk of message manipulation, information disclosure, or downstream exploitation through contaminated message metadata.

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