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Improper Link Resolution Before File Access in Apache Hadoop

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 0.23.0, < 1.0.1
>= 2.0.0, < 2.5.2

Patched versions

1.0.1
2.5.2

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 5, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Jul 7, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.110%
(46th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-3627

GHSA ID

GHSA-jpmf-8cj2-595g

Source code

No known source code
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