CVE-2018-11760

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-02-04 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

When using PySpark , it's possible for a different local user to connect to the Spark application and impersonate the user running the Spark application. This affects versions 1.x, 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.0 to 2.2.2, and 2.3.0 to 2.3.1.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Spark: from 1.0.2 through 1.6.3; from 2.0.0 through 2.0.2; from 2.1.0 through 2.1.3; from 2.2.0 through 2.2.2; from 2.3.0 through 2.3.1

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106786
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6d015e56b3a3da968f86e0b6acc69f17ecc16b499389e12d8255bf6e%40%3Ccommits.spark.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a86ee93d07b6f61b82b61a28049aed311f5cc9420d26cc95f1a9de7b%40%3Cuser.spark.apache.org%3E
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106786
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6d015e56b3a3da968f86e0b6acc69f17ecc16b499389e12d8255bf6e%40%3Ccommits.spark.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a86ee93d07b6f61b82b61a28049aed311f5cc9420d26cc95f1a9de7b%40%3Cuser.spark.apache.org%3E

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