Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

apache/storm

              master @ 39196b1
            

Fixes

CVEs

CRITICAL

Peak severity

66.7%

Coverage

Highlights

Auth Bypass: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

external/storm-metrics-prometheus/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/metrics/prometheus/PrometheusPreparableReporter.java: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.

1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Auth Bypass: Flawed TLS state machine configuration, specifically calling setWantClientAuth() after setNeedClientAuth(), inadvertently downgraded mandatory client certificate requirements to optional. This allows unauthenticated clients to connect and bypass critical cluster transport barriers.

Broken Cryptography: Modifying global JVM SSL state via SSLContext.setDefault to disable TLS validation for a single reporter compromises the security transport of all other HTTPS/TLS connections running within the same process.

Denial of Service: Unbounded decompression of gzip and zstd payloads during cluster state deserialization makes the coordinator and worker processes highly susceptible to zip-bomb resource exhaustion attacks.