[HADOOP-12964] Http server vulnerable to clickjacking

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Haibo Chen
• Reporter: Haibo Chen
• Created: 25/Mar/16 19:04
• Updated: 25/Jun/21 18:40
• Resolved: 12/Apr/16 21:42

Description

Nessus report shows a medium level issue that "Web Application Potentially Vulnerable to Clickjacking" with the description as follows:

"The remote web server does not set an X-Frame-Options response header in all content responses. This could potentially expose the site to a clickjacking or UI Redress attack wherein an attacker can trick a user into clicking an area of the vulnerable page that is different than what the user perceives the page to be. This can result in a user performing fraudulent or malicious transactions"

We could add X-Frame-Options, supported in all major browsers, in the Http response header to mitigate the issue.

Issue Links

• is related to: YARN-10833 RM logs endpoint vulnerable to clickjacking
• relates to: HDFS-10579 HDFS web interfaces lack configs for X-FRAME-OPTIONS protection