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