CVE-2023-51663

MEDIUM

Hail < 0.2.127 - Authentication Bypass via OpenID Connect Email Address Spoofing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Hail is an open-source, general-purpose, Python-based data analysis tool with additional data types and methods for working with genomic data. Hail relies on OpenID Connect (OIDC) email addresses from ID tokens to verify the validity of a user's domain, but because users have the ability to change their email address, they could create accounts and use resources in clusters that they should not have access to. For example, a user could create a Microsoft or Google account and then change their email to `[email protected]`. This account can then be used to create a Hail Batch account in Hail Batch clusters whose organization domain is `example.org`. The attacker is not able to access private data or impersonate another user, but they would have the ability to run jobs if Hail Batch billing projects are enabled and create Azure Tenants if they have Azure Active Directory Administrator access.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Mitigation, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/hail-is/hail/security/advisories/GHSA-487p-qx68-5vjw

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 24.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-289
Status published
Products (2)
hail/hail < 0.2.127
pypi/hail 0 - 0.2.127PyPI
Published Dec 29, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026