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Privilege Escalation Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common package, versions [2.8.0, 2.8.1) [3.0.0-alpha1, 3.0.0-alpha3)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.08% (34th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-31450
  • published 7 Jun 2017
  • disclosed 2 Jun 2017
  • credit Allen Wittenauer
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Introduced: 2 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-7669 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-265 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common to version 2.8.1, 3.0.0-alpha3 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common 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. The LinuxContainerExecutor runs docker commands as root with insufficient input validation. When the docker feature is enabled, authenticated users can run commands as root.