CVE-2021-45457

Summary

In Apache Kylin, Cross-origin requests with credentials are allowed to be sent from any origin. This issue affects Apache Kylin 2 version 2.6.6 and prior versions; Apache Kylin 3 version 3.1.2 and prior versions; Apache Kylin 4 version 4.0.0 and prior versions.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Apache Software FoundationApache KylinApache Kylin 2 <= 2.6.6affected
Apache Software FoundationApache KylinApache Kylin 3 <= 3.1.2affected
Apache Software FoundationApache KylinApache Kylin 4 <= 4.0.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CORS

Workarounds

Kylin reflects the Origin header and allow credentials to be sent cross-origin in the default configuration. The preflight OPTIONS request:

OPTIONS /kylin/api/projects HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:7070
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Access-Control-Request-Method: POST
Access-Control-Request-Headers: content-type
Referer: http://b49b-95-62-58-48.ngrok.io/
Origin: http://b49b-95-62-58-48.ngrok.io
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0

Will be replied with:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://b49b-95-62-58-48.ngrok.io
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Vary: Origin
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: DELETE, POST, GET, OPTIONS, PUT
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization, Origin, No-Cache, X-Requested-With, Cache-Control, Accept, X-E4m-With, If-Modified-Since, Pragma, Last-Modified, Expires, Content-Type
Content-Length: 0

Users of Kylin 2.x & Kylin 3.x should upgrade to 3.1.3 or apply patch https://github.com/apache/kylin/pull/1782. Users of Kylin 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.1 or apply patch https://github.com/apache/kylin/pull/1781.

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

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