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Srikanth Srungarapu commented on HBASE-13085:
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bq. The overall documentation on Rest impersonation can be improved. I can open
another JIRA for that.
Yes, please.
bq. Yes, I have done testing on a kerberos cluster with both types of
impersonation.
Thanks!
+1 (non-binding).
> Security issue in the implementation of Rest gataway 'doAs' proxy user support
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-13085
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13085
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: REST, security
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0, 2.0.0, 0.98.10
> Reporter: Jerry He
> Assignee: Jerry He
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 2.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 0.98.11
>
> Attachments: HBASE-13085-0.98.patch
>
>
> When 'hbase.rest.support.proxyuser' is turned on, HBase Rest gateway support
> 'doAs' proxy user from the Rest client.
> The current implementation checks to see if the 'rest server user' is
> authorized to impersonate the 'doAs' user (the user in the 'doAs' Rest query
> string).
> {code}
> if (doAsUserFromQuery != null) {
> Configuration conf = servlet.getConfiguration();
> if (!servlet.supportsProxyuser()) {
> throw new ServletException("Support for proxyuser is not configured");
> }
> UserGroupInformation ugi = servlet.getRealUser();
> // create and attempt to authorize a proxy user (the client is
> attempting
> // to do proxy user)
> ugi = UserGroupInformation.createProxyUser(doAsUserFromQuery, ugi);
> // validate the proxy user authorization
> try {
> ProxyUsers.authorize(ugi, request.getRemoteAddr(), conf);
> } catch(AuthorizationException e) {
> throw new ServletException(e.getMessage());
> }
> servlet.setEffectiveUser(doAsUserFromQuery);
> }
> {code}
> The current implementation allows anyone from the rest client side to
> impersonate another user by 'doAs'.
> For example, potentially, 'user1' can 'doAs=admin'
> The correct implementation should check to see if the rest client user is
> authorized to do impersonation.
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