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

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-461004
  • published6 Feb 2018
  • disclosed19 Jan 2018
  • creditMan Yue Mo

Introduced: 19 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-15713  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

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.

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