CVE-2020-17533 Apache Accumulo Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions

Apache Accumulo versions 1.5.0 through 1.10.0 and version 2.0.0 do not properly check the return value of some policy enforcement functions before permitting an authenticated user to perform certain administrative operations. Specifically, the return values of the 'canFlush' and...

CVE-2020-17533

Summary of CVE-2020-17533 (Apache Accumulo) Root cause: Insufficient verification of the return values from policy-enforcement functions canFlush and canPerformSystemActions, allowing an authenticated user with limited permissions to perform restricted administrative operations. Affected versions...

British Intelligence Open-Sources its Large-Scale Graph Database Software

UK's Secretive Spy Agency Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ has open-sourced one of its tools on code-sharing website GitHub for free... A graph database called 'Gaffer.' Gaffer, written in Java, is a kind of database that makes it "easy to store large-scale graphs in which the nodes an...