Privilege Escalation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package org.apache.spark:spark-core Open this link in a new tab


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    EPSS 0.04% (6th percentile)
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4.7 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHESPARK-31693
  • published 19 Jul 2018
  • disclosed 11 Jul 2018
  • credit Nehmé Tohmé

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.spark:spark-core to versions 2.1.3, 2.2.2, 2.3.1 or higher.

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

org.apache.spark:spark-core is a general cluster computing system for Big Data.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. When using PySpark or SparkR, it was possible for a different local user to connect to the Spark application and impersonate the user running the Spark application.