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The Legacy Pipe receiver protocol (handshake / sendPipeData) uses a\nhardcoded SUPER_USER (root) identity when executing data loading and\ndeletion operations. A user with only SYSTEM-level privileges (such as\nUSE_PIPE or MAINTAIN) who does NOT have WRITE_DATA or DELETE_DATA\npermissions on target databases can send specially crafted PipeData\nmessages through the Legacy Pipe API, resulting in data loading/deletion\noperations executed as root — effectively bypassing IoTDB's permission\nmodel entirely.
This issue affects Apache IoTDB: from 2.0.0 before 2.0.11.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.11, which fixes the issue.
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