CVE-2023-51663CWE-289

Hail authentication can be bypassed by changing email address

Medium · published December 29, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
29.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 `[email protected]`. 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00367 · 29.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-289 · Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name
Published
2023-12-29T16:53Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 DEC 16:53Z
    Hail authentication can be bypassed by changing email address
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