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Apache Druid: The HTTP inputSource allows authenticated users to read data from other sources than intended (incomplete fix of CVE-2021-26920)

Published Sep 24, 2021

Description

In the Druid ingestion system, the InputSource is used for reading data from a certain data source. However, the HTTP InputSource allows authenticated users to read data from other sources than intended, such as the local file system, with the privileges of the Druid server process. This is not an elevation of privilege when users access Druid directly, since Druid also provides the Local InputSource, which allows the same level of access. But it is problematic when users interact with Druid indirectly through an application that allows users to specify the HTTP InputSource, but not the Local InputSource. In this case, users could bypass the application-level restriction by passing a file URL to the HTTP InputSource. This issue was previously mentioned as being fixed in 0.21.0 as per CVE-2021-26920 but was not fixed in 0.21.0 or 0.21.1.

Affected products

Remediation

Vendor solution

Users can avoid the issue by upgrading to 0.22.0 or a higher version.

In an earlier version than 0.22.0, when the user application wants to restrict the access to the local file system, it should disallow all InputSources that can read local files, that is the Local, HTTP, and HDFS InputSources.

Red Hat statement

OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) shipped Druid in the ose-metering-hive container, however InputSources such as HTTP and HDFS are not included, hence OCP is not affected by this vulnerability.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner apache
Published Sep 24, 2021
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Jul 15, 2021
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Sep 23, 2021
GHSA-9P5G-VG43-MJ5R