CVE-2014-3627 (NVD)

2014-12-05

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.

Products Hadoop
Type Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') (CWE-59)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links http://secunia.com/advisories/60432
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-general/201411.mbox/%3CCALwhT97dOi04aC3VbekaB+zn2UAS_OZV2EAiP78GmjnMzfp2Ug%40mail.gmail.com%3E
http://secunia.com/advisories/60079