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[jira] [Created] (HADOOP-12758) Extend CSRF Filter with UserAgent Checks

Larry McCay created HADOOP-12758:
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             Summary: Extend CSRF Filter with UserAgent Checks
                 Key: HADOOP-12758
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12758
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: security
            Reporter: Larry McCay
            Assignee: Larry McCay


To protect against CSRF attacks, HADOOP-12691 introduces a CSRF filter that will require a specific HTTP header to be sent with every REST API call. This will affect all API consumers from web apps to CLIs and curl. 

Since CSRF is primarily a browser based attack we can try and minimize the impact on non-browser clients.

This enhancement will provide additional configuration for identifying non-browser useragents and skipping the enforcement of the header requirement for anything identified as a non-browser. This will largely limit the impact to browser based PUT and POST calls when configured appropriately.



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