CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-5640

Improper Authentication

Published: Jul 10, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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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.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
ImpalaApache2.7.0 (including)2.7.0 (including)
ImpalaApache2.8.0 (including)2.8.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References