CVE-2017-5640
It was noticed that a malicious process impersonating an Impala daemon in Apache Impala (incubating) 2.7.0 to 2.8.0 could cause Impala daemons to skip authentication checks when Kerberos is enabled (but TLS is not).
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.85%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
It was noticed that a malicious process impersonating an Impala daemon in Apache Impala (incubating) 2.7.0 to 2.8.0 could cause Impala daemons to skip authentication checks when Kerberos is enabled (but TLS is not). If the malicious server responds with 'COMPLETE' before the SASL handshake has completed, the client will consider the handshake as completed even though no exchange of credentials has happened.
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.85% probability · 86th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-287
- Affected
- apache/impala
- Source
- security@apache.org
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99508Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c02e83aa46c90b7cbc87dd649cf8f9b73e11053eddea9144a397da53%40%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99508Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c02e83aa46c90b7cbc87dd649cf8f9b73e11053eddea9144a397da53%40%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.