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


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.05% (16th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium

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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.