[PHOENIX-4702] MD5 Hash Algorithm in Phoenix which is insecure and easily cracked

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.7.0
• Labels: Encryption Phoenix Security hashing
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Koundinya Ravulapati
• Created: 23/Apr/18 20:16
• Updated: 08/Feb/21 19:47

Description

Hi Team,

We have ran a security check on 

compile group: 'org.apache.phoenix', name: 'phoenix', version: '4.7.0-CLABS-1.3.0', classifier: 'client-minimal'

and our security scan has reveled that phoenix is using a week encryption MD5 like
digest = java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5")

The hashing algorithm used, MD5, has been found by researchers to be unsafe for protecting sensitive data with today's technology.

I have checked the https://github.com/apache/phoenix/tree/4.7.0-HBase-1.1 

and also other versions it is still having the same algorithm. Is Phoenix team considering to use more stronger algorithm like SHA-256. Can you please let us know if this is already available any new versions of phoenix or in which version can this be made available if team is working on it. 

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: PHOENIX-6369 Usage of broken hash algorithm detected