Authenticated Users Bypass Admin Authorization in Apache Atlas

Description: Missing Authorization in Apache Atlas. A missing authorization vulnerability in Apache Atlas's admin endpoints allows any authenticated user, regardless of their assigned role, to perform administrative operations. Affect Version: This issue affects Apache Atlas: from 0.8 through 2.5.0. Mitigation: Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.6.0, which fixes the issue.

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Analysis

Apache Atlas versions 0.8 through 2.5.0 contain a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in administrative endpoints that allows any authenticated user to perform privileged operations regardless of their assigned role. This critical gap means that standard users, contractors, or compromised accounts with basic authentication can escalate their privileges to execute administrative functions—creating, modifying, or deleting metadata, managing data governance policies, and potentially exfiltrating sensitive cataloging information. Organizations running affected Atlas versions face significant risk, particularly in regulated industries where unauthorized data catalog modifications could violate compliance requirements and compromise data lineage integrity.

Casky's 283 mapped security skills detect the attack patterns associated with this vulnerability by correlating two key MITRE ATT&CK techniques: TA0004 (Privilege Escalation) and TA0006 (Credential Access). Practitioners using Casky would identify suspicious patterns such as authenticated users accessing /admin endpoints without corresponding administrative role assignments, lateral movement from standard accounts to system configuration changes, and unusual API calls to metadata modification services from non-admin users. Claude's extended reasoning analyzes authentication logs, role-based access control (RBAC) enforcement gaps, and endpoint activity to surface authorization bypass attempts that would typically appear as successful admin operations initiated by accounts lacking explicit permissions—the signature of this vulnerability class.

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283 Casky skills cover this attack pattern

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abusing-dpapi-for-credential-access

red teaming · high

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red teaming · high

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Access with Stolen Session Cookie

identity access management · low

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

TA0004 TA0006

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