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Mikhail Antonov commented on HBASE-15946:
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Yeah that shell command invocation should go away and this sec. concert won't
exist after that. Thanks for bringing it up!
> Eliminate possible security concerns in RS web UI's store file metrics
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> Key: HBASE-15946
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15946
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sean Mackrory
> Assignee: Mikhail Antonov
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> More from static code analysis: it warns about the invoking of a separate
> command ("hbase hfile -s -f ...") as a possible security issue in
> hbase-server/src/main/resources/hbase-webapps/regionserver/storeFile.jsp.
> It looks to me like one cannot inject arbitrary shell script or even
> arbitrary arguments: ProcessBuilder makes that fairly safe and only allows
> the user to specify the argument that comes after -f. However that does
> potentially allow them to have the daemon's user access files they shouldn't
> be able to touch, albeit only for reading.
> To more explicitly eliminate any threats here, we should add some validation
> that the file is at least within HBase's root directory and use the Java API
> directly instead of invoking a separate executable.
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