Andrew Purtell created HBASE-11434:
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Summary: [AccessController] Disallow inbound cells with reserved
tags
Key: HBASE-11434
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11434
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Andrew Purtell
Assignee: Andrew Purtell
Fix For: 0.99.0, 0.98.4
Currently the AccessController allows users to store cells with ACL tags
encoded by the client. This isn't a security issue currently, because in order
to store the cell the user must have a relevant WRITE grant, and the user is
allowed to specify whatever ACL for the cell they'd like. However it could
become a correctness problem in the future, if we introduce format sanity
checking or the like, so let's disallow inbound mutations containing cells with
reserved tags like the VisibilityController does.
The check is skipped if the active user is a superuser. First, superusers are
allowed to do anything. Second, replication (as superuser) must be able to
store incoming cells with ACL tags.
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