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Andrew Purtell updated HBASE-14799:
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    Description: 
Read: 
http://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-websphere-jboss-jenkins-opennms-and-your-application-have-in-common-this-vulnerability/

TL;DR: If you have commons-collections on your classpath and accept and process 
Java object serialization data, then you probably have an exploitable remote 
command execution vulnerability. 

0.94 and earlier HBase releases are vulnerable because we might read in and 
rehydrate serialized Java objects out of RPC packet data in HbaseObjectWritable 
using ObjectInputStream#readObject (see 
https://hbase.apache.org/0.94/xref/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/HbaseObjectWritable.html#714)
 and we have commons-collections on the classpath on the server.

0.98 also carries some limited exposure to this problem through inclusion of 
backwards compatible deserialization code in HbaseObjectWritableFor96Migration. 
This is used by the 0.94-to-0.98 migration utility, and by the AccessController 
when reading permissions from the ACL table serialized in legacy format by 
0.94. Unprivileged users cannot run the tool nor access the ACL table.

Unprivileged users can however attack a 0.94 installation. An attacker might be 
able to use the method discussed on that blog post to capture valid HBase RPC 
payloads for 0.94 and prior versions, rewrite them to embed an exploit, and 
replay them to trigger a remote command execution with the privileges of the 
account under which the HBase RegionServer daemon is running.

We need to make a patch release of 0.94 that changes HbaseObjectWritable to 
disallow processing of random Java object serializations. This will be a 
compatibility break that might affect old style coprocessors, which quite 
possibly may rely on this catch-all in HbaseObjectWritable for custom object 
(de)serialization. We can introduce a new configuration setting, 
"hbase.allow.legacy.object.serialization", defaulting to false.

To be thorough, we can also use the new configuration setting  
"hbase.allow.legacy.object.serialization" (defaulting to false) in 0.98 to 
prevent the AccessController from falling back to the vulnerable legacy code. 
This turns out to not affect the ability to migrate permissions because 
TablePermission implements Writable, which is safe, not Serializable. 

  was:
Read: 
http://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-websphere-jboss-jenkins-opennms-and-your-application-have-in-common-this-vulnerability/

TL;DR: If you have commons-collections on your classpath and accept and process 
Java object serialization data, then you probably have an exploitable remote 
command execution vulnerability. 

0.94 and earlier HBase releases are vulnerable because we might read in and 
rehydrate serialized Java objects out of RPC packet data in HbaseObjectWritable 
using ObjectInputStream#readObject (see 
https://hbase.apache.org/0.94/xref/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/HbaseObjectWritable.html#714)
 and we have commons-collections on the classpath on the server.

0.98 also carries some limited exposure to this problem through inclusion of 
backwards compatible deserialization code in HbaseObjectWritableFor96Migration. 
This is used by the 0.94-to-0.98 migration utility, and by the AccessController 
when reading permissions from the ACL table serialized in legacy format by 
0.94. Unprivileged users cannot run the tool nor access the ACL table.

Unprivileged users can however attack a 0.94 installation. An attacker might be 
able to use the method discussed on that blog post to capture valid HBase RPC 
payloads for 0.94 and prior versions, rewrite them to embed an exploit, and 
replay them to trigger a remote command execution with the privileges of the 
account under which the HBase RegionServer daemon is running.

We need to make a patch release of 0.94 that changes HbaseObjectWritable to 
disallow processing of random Java object serializations. This will be a 
compatibility break that might affect old style coprocessors, which quite 
possibly may rely on this catch-all in HbaseObjectWritable for custom object 
(de)serialization. We can introduce a new configuration setting, 
"hbase.allow.legacy.object.serialization", defaulting to false.

To be thorough, we can also use the new configuration setting  
"hbase.allow.legacy.object.serialization" (defaulting to false) in 0.98 to 
prevent the AccessController from falling back to the vulnerable legacy code. 
This would need to be changed to 'true' to re-enable support of auto-migration 
of ACL data whenever migrating from 0.94.


> Commons-collections object deserialization remote command execution 
> vulnerability 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-14799
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14799
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Andrew Purtell
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 0.94.28, 0.98.17
>
>         Attachments: HBASE-14799-0.94.patch, HBASE-14799-0.98.patch, 
> HBASE-14799-0.98.patch
>
>
> Read: 
> http://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-websphere-jboss-jenkins-opennms-and-your-application-have-in-common-this-vulnerability/
> TL;DR: If you have commons-collections on your classpath and accept and 
> process Java object serialization data, then you probably have an exploitable 
> remote command execution vulnerability. 
> 0.94 and earlier HBase releases are vulnerable because we might read in and 
> rehydrate serialized Java objects out of RPC packet data in 
> HbaseObjectWritable using ObjectInputStream#readObject (see 
> https://hbase.apache.org/0.94/xref/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/HbaseObjectWritable.html#714)
>  and we have commons-collections on the classpath on the server.
> 0.98 also carries some limited exposure to this problem through inclusion of 
> backwards compatible deserialization code in 
> HbaseObjectWritableFor96Migration. This is used by the 0.94-to-0.98 migration 
> utility, and by the AccessController when reading permissions from the ACL 
> table serialized in legacy format by 0.94. Unprivileged users cannot run the 
> tool nor access the ACL table.
> Unprivileged users can however attack a 0.94 installation. An attacker might 
> be able to use the method discussed on that blog post to capture valid HBase 
> RPC payloads for 0.94 and prior versions, rewrite them to embed an exploit, 
> and replay them to trigger a remote command execution with the privileges of 
> the account under which the HBase RegionServer daemon is running.
> We need to make a patch release of 0.94 that changes HbaseObjectWritable to 
> disallow processing of random Java object serializations. This will be a 
> compatibility break that might affect old style coprocessors, which quite 
> possibly may rely on this catch-all in HbaseObjectWritable for custom object 
> (de)serialization. We can introduce a new configuration setting, 
> "hbase.allow.legacy.object.serialization", defaulting to false.
> To be thorough, we can also use the new configuration setting  
> "hbase.allow.legacy.object.serialization" (defaulting to false) in 0.98 to 
> prevent the AccessController from falling back to the vulnerable legacy code. 
> This turns out to not affect the ability to migrate permissions because 
> TablePermission implements Writable, which is safe, not Serializable. 



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