Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-common package, versions [,2.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-174575
  • published2 May 2019
  • disclosed12 May 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 May 2014

CVE-2014-3627  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-common to version 2.5.2 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-common is a distribution of Apache Hadoop with distributed metadata.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. When using Kerberos authentication, It allows remote cluster users to change the permissions of certain files to world-readable via a symlink attack in a public tar archive, which is not properly handled during localization, related to distributed cache.

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