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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-72665
  • published10 Dec 2018
  • disclosed1 May 2016
  • creditFreddie Rice.

Introduced: 1 May 2016

CVE-2016-6811  (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 2.7.4 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.

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