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hadoop: file disclosure flaw

Published Dec 5, 2014

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.

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Red Hat statement

This issue may affect the versions of hadoop as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Dec 5, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved May 14, 2014
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Nov 21, 2014
GHSA-JPMF-8CJ2-595G