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Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager package, versions [2.2.0, 2.7.4)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.11% (43rd 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-72665
  • published 10 Dec 2018
  • disclosed 1 May 2016
  • credit Freddie Rice.
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Introduced: 1 May 2016

CVE-2016-6811 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 2.7.4 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.