The Knox Gateway is a Web API (REST) Gateway for Hadoop clusters. REST interactions are HTTP based, and therefore the interactions are vulnerable to a number of web application security vulnerabilities. The web application security provider allows you to configure protection filter plugins.
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The initial vulnerability protection filter is for Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Others will be added in future releases. |
