Access Control Bypass Affecting org.apache.ambari:ambari-agent package, versions [2.4,2.4.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEAMBARI-5812979
  • published1 Aug 2023
  • disclosed17 May 2022
  • creditNitya Kumar Sharma from Microsoft

Introduced: 17 May 2022

CVE-2016-6807  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.ambari:ambari-agent to version 2.4.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass when executing custom commands on Ambari Agent hosts. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to operations that may affect the underlying system by invoking operations as the user executes the Ambari Agent process.

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