CVE-2018-8025: Apache Hbase

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE-2018-8025 describes an issue in Apache HBase that affects the optional "Thrift 1" API server when running over HTTP. There is a race-condition which could lead to authenticated sessions being incorrectly applied to users, e.g. one authenticated user would be considered a different user or an unauthenticated user would be treated as an authenticated user. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20664 implements a fix for this issue. It has been fixed in versions: 1.2.6.1, 1.3.2.1, 1.4.5, 2.0.1.

Affected products

• Apache Hbase: after 1.0.0, up to and including 2.0.0; version 0.92.0 only

Published 2018-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.