CVE-2018-8025

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

CVE-2018-8025 describes an issue in Apache HBase that affects the optional "Thrift 1" API server when running over HTTP. There is a race-condition which could lead to authenticated sessions being incorrectly applied to users, e.g. one authenticated user would be considered a different user or an unauthenticated user would be treated as an authenticated user. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20664 implements a fix for this issue. It has been fixed in versions: 1.2.6.1, 1.3.2.1, 1.4.5, 2.0.1.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache HBase: from 1.0.0 (excl.) through 2.0.0; 0.92.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104554
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a919e38f587c714c386a01d40fc8f45bd4219a65aaf2dc0bb4eccc96%40%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104554
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a919e38f587c714c386a01d40fc8f45bd4219a65aaf2dc0bb4eccc96%40%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E

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