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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-9934:
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Apache has special guidelines regarding security vulnerabilities. Here is the
link:
http://www.apache.org/security/committers
We are all new to this, so what we have done so far may not comply to this.
However, we should try to do so from now on.
For doc, please also refer to the document.
AS to the vulnerability, discussion is still ongoing in the community. Thus, we
will act based on the conclusions.
> Vulnerability in LdapAuthenticationProviderImpl enables HiveServer2 client to
> degrade the authentication mechanism to "none", allowing authentication
> without password
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>
> Key: HIVE-9934
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9934
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Security
> Affects Versions: 1.1.0
> Reporter: Chao
> Assignee: Chao
> Fix For: 1.2.0
>
> Attachments: HIVE-9934.1.patch, HIVE-9934.2.patch, HIVE-9934.3.patch,
> HIVE-9934.3.patch
>
>
> Vulnerability in LdapAuthenticationProviderImpl enables HiveServer2 client to
> degrade the authentication mechanism to "none", allowing authentication
> without password.
> See: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/jndi/tutorial/ldap/security/simple.html
> “If you supply an empty string, an empty byte/char array, or null to the
> Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS environment property, then the authentication
> mechanism will be "none". This is because the LDAP requires the password to
> be nonempty for simple authentication. The protocol automatically converts
> the authentication to "none" if a password is not supplied.”
>
> Since the LdapAuthenticationProviderImpl.Authenticate method is relying on a
> NamingException being thrown during creation of initial context, it does not
> fail when the context result is an “unauthenticated” positive response from
> the LDAP server. The end result is, one can authenticate with HiveServer2
> using the LdapAuthenticationProviderImpl with only a user name and an empty
> password.
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