{"id":"CVE-2017-5640","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-5640","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T04:16:48.142Z","title":"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).","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.","published":"2017-07-10T20:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:20:54.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@apache.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-287"],"affected":["apache/impala"],"epss":{"score":0.02852,"percentile":0.86671,"date":"2026-10-28","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99508","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c02e83aa46c90b7cbc87dd649cf8f9b73e11053eddea9144a397da53%40%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E","source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99508","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c02e83aa46c90b7cbc87dd649cf8f9b73e11053eddea9144a397da53%40%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5640","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}