CVE-2021-45457

Overly broad CORS configuration

Published Jan 6, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 2.5% KEV · Not listed
Description
In Apache Kylin, Cross-origin requests with credentials are allowed to be sent from any origin. This issue affects Apache Kylin 2 version 2.6.6 and prior versions; Apache Kylin 3 version 3.1.2 and prior versions; Apache Kylin 4 version 4.0.0 and prior versions.

Remediation

Vendor Workaround

Kylin reflects the `Origin` header and allow credentials to be sent cross-origin in the default configuration. The preflight OPTIONS request: ``` OPTIONS /kylin/api/projects HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:7070 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Access-Control-Request-Method: POST Access-Control-Request-Headers: content-type Referer: http://b49b-95-62-58-48.ngrok.io/ Origin: http://b49b-95-62-58-48.ngrok.io Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ``` Will be replied with: ``` HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://b49b-95-62-58-48.ngrok.io Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Vary: Origin Access-Control-Allow-Methods: DELETE, POST, GET, OPTIONS, PUT Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization, Origin, No-Cache, X-Requested-With, Cache-Control, Accept, X-E4m-With, If-Modified-Since, Pragma, Last-Modified, Expires, Content-Type Content-Length: 0 ``` Users of Kylin 2.x & Kylin 3.x should upgrade to 3.1.3 or apply patch https://github.com/apache/kylin/pull/1782. Users of Kylin 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.1 or apply patch https://github.com/apache/kylin/pull/1781.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-0646 In Apache Kylin, Cross-origin requests with credentials are allowed to be sent from any origin. This issue affects Apache Kylin 2 version 2.6.6 and prior versions; Apache Kylin 3 version 3.1.2 and prior versions; Apache Kylin 4 version 4.0.0 and prior versions.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-mgpf-hhgf-cxg4 In Apache Kylin, Cross-origin requests with credentials are allowed to be sent from any origin.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Overly broad CORS configuration Overly broad CORS configuration
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
apache
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 4:39 AM
Reserved
Dec 21, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 6, 2022, 1:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:13 AM