Information Exposure Affecting pyspark package, versions [,3.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYSPARK-2980309
  • published10 Mar 2022
  • disclosed10 Mar 2022
  • creditSteve Weis

Introduced: 10 Mar 2022

CVE-2021-38296  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-294  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pyspark to version 3.1.3 or higher.

Overview

pyspark is a fast and general cluster computing system for Big Data.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure via a bespoke mutual authentication protocol that allows for full encryption key recovery. This would allow a malicious actor who has access to the machine to decrypt captured network traffic offline.

CVSS Scores

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