Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager package, versions [2.7.4, 2.7.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-72664
  • published10 Dec 2018
  • disclosed27 Nov 2018
  • creditWilfred Spiegelenburg

Introduced: 27 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-11766  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager to version 2.7.7 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 Arbitrary Command Execution. A user who could escalate to yarn user could possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

Note This vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix for the CVE-2016-6811.

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