The Pinot vulnerability follows similar authentication bypass flaws in Elasticsearch (CVE-2024-35253) and MongoDB Atlas (CVE-2024-48721) disclosed earlier this year, suggesting industry-wide patterns in URI validation weaknesses. Cyber Security News is a Dedicated News Platform For Cyber News, Cyber Attack News, Hacking News & Vulnerability Analysis. A critical security vulnerability in Apache Pinot designated CVE-2024-56325, has been disclosed. The attack vector requires no network privileges, operates without user interaction, and impacts all three core security pillars: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The Pinot case demonstrates how single flawed classes in open-source projects can compromise enterprise-scale deployments, underscoring the importance of layered defense strategies in modern data ecosystems. Security analysts confirm exploitability requires only basic HTTP request manipulation skills, lowering the barrier for malicious actors. It allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms and gain unauthorized access to sensitive systems. Attackers can craft malicious URIs containing unneutralized special characters to bypass security checks entirely. This improper input sanitization violates the CWE-707 specification related to insufficient message structure validation, enabling complete circumvention of authentication protocols. As of writing, no active exploits have been observed in the wild, but the combination of public disclosure details and available patch diff analysis increases the likelihood of weaponization within 30 days. Gurubaran is a co-founder of Cyber Security News and GBHackers On Security. The vulnerability resides in Pinot’s AuthenticationFilter class, which handles URI validation and authentication checks.
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