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CVE-2018-8029

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Apache Hadoop

Impact

In Apache Hadoop versions 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.1.0, 2.9.0 to 2.9.1, and 2.2.0 to 2.8.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
mavenorg.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main>= 2.2.0, < 2.8.42.8.4

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
ApacheHadoop
from 2.2.0 through 2.8.4
from 3.0.1 through 3.1.0
Versions 2.9.0, 2.9.1, 3.0.0

Weakness classification

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