User Impersonation Affecting pyspark package, versions [,2.2.3)[2.3.0, 2.3.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYSPARK-73649
  • published4 Feb 2019
  • disclosed4 Feb 2019
  • creditLuca Canali, Jose Carlos Luna Duran

Introduced: 4 Feb 2019

CVE-2018-11760  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-520  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pyspark to version 2.2.3, 2.3.2 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to User Impersonation. It is possible for a different local user to connect to the Spark application and impersonate the user running the Spark application.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1