Information Exposure Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common package, versions [, 2.8.3) [3.0.0-alpha, 3.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-461004
  • published 6 Feb 2018
  • disclosed 19 Jan 2018
  • credit Man Yue Mo

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common to version 2.8.3, 3.0.0 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 Information Exposure. A cluster user may be able to expose private files owned by the user running the MapReduce job history server process. A malicious user can construct a configuration file containing XML directives that reference sensitive files on the MapReduce job history server host.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None