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AWS msk medium security documentation change

Service: msk · 2025-06-07 · Security-related medium

File: msk/latest/developerguide/create-serverless-cluster-client.md

Summary

Added note about setting execute permissions on Kafka scripts

Security assessment

The added guidance ensures proper script permissions, addressing potential security risks from misconfigured execute permissions.

Diff

diff --git a/msk/latest/developerguide/create-serverless-cluster-client.md b/msk/latest/developerguide/create-serverless-cluster-client.md
index 216d24f2a..922b22013 100644
--- a//msk/latest/developerguide/create-serverless-cluster-client.md
+++ b//msk/latest/developerguide/create-serverless-cluster-client.md
@@ -53,0 +54,6 @@ In the step, you perform two tasks. The first task is to create an Amazon EC2 in
+###### Note
+
+After extracting the Kafka archive, make sure that the scripts in the `bin` directory have proper execute permissions. To do this, run the following command.
+    
+        chmod +x kafka_2.12-2.8.1/bin/.sh
+