Race-condition vulnerability in Apache HBase Thrift 1 API Server over HTTP (CVE-2018-8025)

CVE-2018-8025 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVE-2018-8025 describes an issue in Apache HBase that affects the optional "Thrift 1" API server when running over HTTP. There is a race-condition which could lead to authenticated sessions being incorrectly applied to users, e.g. one authenticated user would be considered a different user or an unauthenticated user would be treated as an authenticated user. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20664 implements a fix for this issue. It has been fixed in versions: 1.2.6.1, 1.3.2.1, 1.4.5, 2.0.1.

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