CVE-2014-3627

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

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.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Hadoop: 0.23.0, 0.23.1, 0.23.3, 0.23.4, 0.23.5, 0.23.6 (+20)

References

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-general/201411.mbox/%3CCALwhT97dOi04aC3VbekaB+zn2UAS_OZV2EAiP78GmjnMzfp2Ug%40mail.gmail.com%3E
http://secunia.com/advisories/60079
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
http://secunia.com/advisories/60432

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