SB2014120518 - Link following in Hadoop
Published: December 5, 2014 Updated: August 9, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014120518
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3627)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.