Critical severity · published Jul 10, 2017
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…
9.8
CVSS
2.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.9% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IM
Impala · Apache
2.7.0; 2.8.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5640
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5640
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99508
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c02e83aa46c90b7cbc87dd649cf8f9b73e11053eddea9144a397da53%40%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E
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