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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-30634
  • 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-core to version 2.7.1 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-mapreduce-client-core 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 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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