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CVE-2023-51663PYSEC-2023-271GHSA-487P-QX68-5VJW

Hail authentication can be bypassed by changing email address

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.2.127
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

Hail is an open-source, general-purpose, Python-based data analysis tool with additional data types and methods for working with genomic data. Hail relies on OpenID Connect (OIDC) email addresses from ID tokens to verify the validity of a user's domain, but because users have the ability to change their email address, they could create accounts and use resources in clusters that they should not have access to. For example, a user could create a Microsoft or Google account and then change their email to `test@example.org`. This account can then be used to create a Hail Batch account in Hail Batch clusters whose organization domain is `example.org`. The attacker is not able to access private data or impersonate another user, but they would have the ability to run jobs if Hail Batch billing projects are enabled and create Azure Tenants if they have Azure Active Directory Administrator access.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • hail-is hail

    fixed in 0.2.127

  • hailPyPI

    fixed in 0.2.127

References 1

GitHub · hail-is/hail