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Mikhail Antonov commented on HBASE-15946: ----------------------------------------- Since we know for fact that in case of this specific JSP the output is going to be small (only file metadata), could we use ByteArrayOutputStream to back PrintWriter? > Eliminate possible security concerns in RS web UI's store file metrics > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-15946 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15946 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Sean Mackrory > Assignee: Mikhail Antonov > Attachments: HBASE-15946-v1.patch, HBASE-15946-v2.patch > > > More from static code analysis: it warns about the invoking of a separate > command ("hbase hfile -s -f ...") as a possible security issue in > hbase-server/src/main/resources/hbase-webapps/regionserver/storeFile.jsp. > It looks to me like one cannot inject arbitrary shell script or even > arbitrary arguments: ProcessBuilder makes that fairly safe and only allows > the user to specify the argument that comes after -f. However that does > potentially allow them to have the daemon's user access files they shouldn't > be able to touch, albeit only for reading. > To more explicitly eliminate any threats here, we should add some validation > that the file is at least within HBase's root directory and use the Java API > directly instead of invoking a separate executable. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)