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Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager package, versions [2.2.0, 2.7.4)

0.0
high

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • Confidentiality

    High

  • Integrity

    High

  • Availability

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-72665

  • published

    10 Dec 2018

  • disclosed

    1 May 2016

  • credit

    Freddie Rice.

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Introduced: 1 May 2016

CVE-2016-6811 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager to version 2.7.4 or higher.

Note On the 27/11/2018 it was found that the fix for version 2.7.4 is incomplete and the version 2.7.7 was published with the complete fix.

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.