Md Mahir Asef Kabir created RANGER-3181:
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Summary: Avoid using plaintext/hard-coded key while generating
secret key
Key: RANGER-3181
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-3181
Project: Ranger
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Ranger
Reporter: Md Mahir Asef Kabir
We are a security research team at Virginia Tech. We are doing an empirical
study about the usefulness of the existing security vulnerability detection
tools. The following is a reported vulnerability by certain tools. We'll so
appreciate it if you can give any feedback on it.
*Security Location:*
in file
[https://github.com/apache/ranger/blob/71e1dd40366c8eb8e9c498b0b5158d85d603af02/agents-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/util/PasswordUtils.java]
in line 76, new PBEKeySpec(encryptKey) is invoked with hard-code key, which is
defined in line 125.
*Security Impact:*
Cryptographic keys should not be kept in the source code. The source code can
be widely shared in an enterprise environment and is certainly shared in open
source. The use of a hard-coded cryptographic key significantly increases the
possibility that encrypted data may be recovered.
*suggestions:*
To be managed safely, passwords and secret keys should be stored in separate
configuration files.
Useful link:
[https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/321.html]
[https://www.appmarq.com/public/tqi,1039028,CWE-327-Avoid-weak-encryption-providing-not-sufficient-key-size-JEE]
*Please share with us your opinions/comments if there is any:*
Is the bug report helpful?
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