ClickHouse Authentication Bypass
clickhouse-auth-bypass is a high severity check in the
databases category, written in python.
Its source is templates/databases/clickhouse/clickhouse-auth-bypass.py in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Detects ClickHouse HTTP interface exposed without authentication, allowing unauthorized database access
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | clickhouse-auth-bypass |
| Severity | high |
| Language | python |
| Category | databases |
| Author | BugB Technologies |
| Template version | not recorded |
| Confidence | not recorded |
| CVSS | not recorded |
| Weakness | CWE-306 |
| Tags | clickhouse, database, authentication, bypass, http, misconfiguration, unauthorized-access |
| Target kind | not recorded |
| Oracle | not recorded |
The file declares @reference as well. Those are not tabled above; read the
source for what they carry.
Run it
Section titled “Run it”To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:
cxg template info clickhouse-auth-bypassThe id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See
cxg template for the rest of
the subcommand, Scan a target for running
a scan, and
A match is not a finding for how
to read what comes back.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Template catalog is the whole corpus.
- databases is the rest of this category.
- Templates by weakness class groups checks by the defect they look for.
- Contribute a template is the route from a check you needed and could not find to a merged one.