Vulnerability CVE-2014-3627
Published: 2014-12-05

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Apache Hadoop 2.5.1 symlink attack
Jason Lowe
04.12.2014

Type:

CWE-59

 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Apache -> Hadoop 

 References:
http://secunia.com/advisories/60432
http://secunia.com/advisories/60079
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-general/201411.mbox/%3CCALwhT97dOi04aC3VbekaB+zn2UAS_OZV2EAiP78GmjnMzfp2Ug@mail.gmail.com%3E
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