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Privilege Escalation Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main package, versions [2.2.0, 2.8.4) [2.9.0, 2.9.2) [3.0.0, 3.1.1)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.24% (65th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high
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Red Hat
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-174854
  • published 2 Jun 2019
  • disclosed 30 May 2019
  • credit Miklos Szegedi
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Introduced: 30 May 2019

CVE-2018-8029 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-264 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main to version 2.8.4, 2.9.2, 3.1.1 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. A malicious user who could escalate to yarn user could possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.