[jira] [Assigned] (HADOOP-11467) KerberosAuthenticator can connect to a non-secure cluster

["Yongjun Zhang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11467?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Yongjun Zhang reassigned HADOOP-11467:
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    Assignee: Yongjun Zhang

> KerberosAuthenticator can connect to a non-secure cluster
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-11467
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11467
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: security
>            Reporter: Robert Kanter
>            Assignee: Yongjun Zhang
>            Priority: Critical
>
> While looking at HADOOP-10895, we discovered that the {{KerberosAuthenticator}} can authenticate with a non-secure cluster, even without falling back.
> The problematic code is here:
> {code:java}
>       if (conn.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {    // <----- A
>         LOG.debug("JDK performed authentication on our behalf.");
>         // If the JDK already did the SPNEGO back-and-forth for
>         // us, just pull out the token.
>         AuthenticatedURL.extractToken(conn, token);
>         return;
>       } else if (isNegotiate()) {                                   // <----- B
>         LOG.debug("Performing our own SPNEGO sequence.");
>         doSpnegoSequence(token);
>       } else {                                                      // <----- C
>         LOG.debug("Using fallback authenticator sequence.");
>         Authenticator auth = getFallBackAuthenticator();
>         // Make sure that the fall back authenticator have the same
>         // ConnectionConfigurator, since the method might be overridden.
>         // Otherwise the fall back authenticator might not have the information
>         // to make the connection (e.g., SSL certificates)
>         auth.setConnectionConfigurator(connConfigurator);
>         auth.authenticate(url, token);
>       }
>     }
> {code}
> Sometimes the JVM does the SPNEGO for us, and path A is used.  However, if the {{KerberosAuthenticator}} tries to talk to a non-secure cluster, path A also succeeds in this case.  
> More details can be found in this comment:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10895?focusedCommentId=14247476&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14247476
> We've actually dealt with this before.  HADOOP-8883 tried to fix a related problem by adding another condition to path A that would look for a header.  However, the JVM hides this header, making path A never occur.  We reverted this change in HADOOP-10078, and didn't realize that there was still a problem until now.



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