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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.07% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEAMBARI-5812979
  • published 1 Aug 2023
  • disclosed 17 May 2022
  • credit Nitya Kumar Sharma from Microsoft

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

7.3 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low