Privilege Escalation Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager package, versions [2.8.0,2.8.1)[3-alpha,3.0.0-alpha2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-32001
  • published7 Jun 2017
  • disclosed2 Jun 2017
  • creditAllen Wittenauer

Introduced: 2 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-7669  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-265  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager to version 2.8.1 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager is a resource management and job scheduling technology in the open source Hadoop distributed processing framework.

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.

CVSS Scores

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