Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager Open this link in a new tab package, versions [2.2.0, 2.7.4)
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-72665
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published
10 Dec 2018
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disclosed
1 May 2016
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credit
Freddie Rice.
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.