CVE-2014-3627 — Link Following in Apache Hadoop
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.6%
top 18.16%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 5
Latest updateMay 17
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.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:N/A:NExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9