CVE-2020-9492. Apache Hadoop Potential privilege escalation Severity: Important
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.1.3, 2.0.0-alpha to 2.10.0 Description: WebHDFS client might send SPNEGO authorization header to remote URL without proper verification. A crafty user can trigger services to send server credentials to a webhdfs path for capturing the service principal. Mitigation: Users of the affected versions should apply either of the following mitigations: - Set different http signature secrets and use dedicated hosts for each privileged impersonation service (such as HiveServer2). - Upgrade to 3.3.0, 3.2.2, 3.1.4, 2.10.1, or newer with TLS encryption enabled and configure dfs.http.policy to HTTPS_ONLY. Credit: This issue was discovered by Kevin Risden.