VYPR
High severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 6, 2022· Updated Aug 4, 2024

Hardcoded credentials

CVE-2021-45458

Description

Apache Kylin provides encryption classes PasswordPlaceholderConfigurer to help users encrypt their passwords. In the encryption algorithm used by this encryption class, the cipher is initialized with a hardcoded key and IV. If users use class PasswordPlaceholderConfigurer to encrypt their password and configure it into kylin's configuration file, there is a risk that the password may be decrypted. 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.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.apache.kylin:kylinMaven
< 3.1.33.1.3
org.apache.kylin:kylinMaven
>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.14.0.1

Affected products

2

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