CVE-2014-3627

Medium

Description

The YARN NodeManager daemon in Apache Hadoop 0.23.0 through 0.23.11 and 2.x before 2.5.2, when using Kerberos authentication, allows remote cluster users to change the permissions of certain files to world-readable via a symlink attack in a public tar archive, which is not properly handled during localization, related to distributed cache.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability87. percentile3%
ProductApache Hadoop
PublishedDec 5, 2014
First seenDec 5, 2014

How to fix

Update
  • org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client1.0.1, 2.5.2 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
apache hadoop0.23.0, 0.23.1, 0.23.3, 0.23.4, 0.23.5, 0.23.6, 0.23.7, 0.23.8, 0.23.9, 0.23.10, 0.23.11, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.3.0, 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.5.0, 2.5.1—
org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-clientMaven0.23.0 ≤ v < 1.0.1, 2.0.0 ≤ v < 2.5.21.0.1, 2.5.2

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