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  1. Hive
  2. HIVE-5989

Hive metastore authorization check is not threadsafe

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Critical
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.12.1
    • 0.13.0
    • Metastore, Security
    • None

    Description

      Metastore-side authorization has a couple of pretty important threadsafety bugs in it:

      a) The HiveMetastoreAuthenticated instantiated by the AuthorizationPreEventListener is static. This is a premature optimization and incorrect, as it will result in Authenticator implementations that store state potentially giving an incorrect result, and this bug very much exists with the DefaultMetastoreAuthenticator.

      b) It assumes HMSHandler.getHiveConf() is itself going to be thread-safe, which it is not. HMSHandler.getConf() is the appropriate thread-safe equivalent.

      The effect of this bug is that if there are two users that are concurrently running jobs on the metastore, we might :

      a) Allow a user to do something they didn't have permission to, because the other person did. (Security hole)
      b) Disallow a user from doing something they should have permission to (More common - annoying and can cause job failures)

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        1. HIVE-5989.2.patch
          9 kB
          Sushanth Sowmyan
        2. HIVE-5989.patch
          9 kB
          Sushanth Sowmyan
        3. SleepyAP.patch
          5 kB
          Sushanth Sowmyan

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