Apache Accumulo: A user can trigger a graceful shutdown of services without the relevant system permissions
Summary
Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges vulnerability in Apache Accumulo. An authenticated, but low-privileged user without system permissions may issue a remote command to gracefully shutdown system components (compaction-coordinator, compactor, gc, manager, monitor, tserver, or sserver), leading to a denial of service. This issue affects Apache Accumulo 2.1.4 and 2.1.5. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.1.6, which fixes the issue.
What this means
In plain English
Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges vulnerability in Apache Accumulo. An authenticated, but low-privileged user without system permissions may issue a remote command to gracefully shutdown system components (compaction-coordinator, compactor, gc, manager, monitor, tserver, or sserver), leading to a denial of service. This issue affects Apache Accumulo 2.1.4 and 2.1.5. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.1.6, which fixes the issue. Successful exploitation can interrupt the affected service or exhaust resources, reducing availability until the component recovers.
Recommended action
Primary action: update to a vendor-listed fixed release: 2.1.6. Vendor mitigation: Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.1.6, which fixes the issue.
Rewritten locally from the scraped official advisory data above; no generative API is used. The vendor advisory is authoritative.
- Apache Accumulo 2.1.4 through 2.1.5
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.1.6, which fixes the issue.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
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