CVE-2017-5640

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

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.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Impala: 2.7.0, 2.8.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99508
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c02e83aa46c90b7cbc87dd649cf8f9b73e11053eddea9144a397da53%40%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99508
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c02e83aa46c90b7cbc87dd649cf8f9b73e11053eddea9144a397da53%40%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E

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