Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-mapreduce-client-app package, versions [2.6.0, 2.7.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-30633
  • published16 Feb 2016
  • disclosed16 Feb 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Feb 2016

CVE-2015-1776  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-mapreduce-client-app to version 2.7.1 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-mapreduce-client-app is a software framework for distributed processing of large data sets on compute clusters of commodity hardware.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. It encrypts intermediate data generated by a MapReduce job and stores it along with the encryption key in a credentials file on disk when the Intermediate data encryption feature is enabled, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file.

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