CVE-2017-5646

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 26, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jan 29, 2017

Description

For versions of Apache Knox from 0.2.0 to 0.11.0 - an authenticated user may use a specially crafted URL to impersonate another user while accessing WebHDFS through Apache Knox. This may result in escalated privileges and unauthorized data access. While this activity is audit logged and can be easily associated with the authenticated user, this is still a serious security issue. All users are recommended to upgrade to the Apache Knox 0.12.0 release.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache KnoxApache Software Foundation	0.2.0 to 0.11.0Affected

References

[knox-user] 20170526 [ANNOUNCE] CVE-2017-5646: Apache Knox Impersonation Issue for WebHDFSmailing-list
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[logging-dev] 20201107 Re: Chainsaw updatemailing-list

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