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Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager package, versions [2.7.4, 2.7.7)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.08% (33rd percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-72664
  • published 10 Dec 2018
  • disclosed 27 Nov 2018
  • credit Wilfred Spiegelenburg
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Introduced: 27 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-11766 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager to version 2.7.7 or higher.

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.

Note This vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix for the CVE-2016-6811.