title: Apache Hadoop Privilege escalation vulnerability
description: In Apache Hadoop 2.2.0 to 2.10.1, 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.1.4, 3.2.0 to 3.2.2, and 3.3.0 to 3.3.1, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user. Users should upgrade to Apache Hadoop 2.10.2, 3.2.3, 3.3.2 or higher.
problem types: CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
affected:
{
product: Apache Hadoop
vendor: Apache Software Foundation
versions:
status: affected, version: 2.2.0 to 2.10.1, 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.1.4, 3.2.0 to 3.2.2, and 3.3.0 to 3.3.1
}
metrics:
other: [
content: {'other': 'Critical'}
type: unknown
]
workarounds: If you are using the affected version of Apache Hadoop and some users can escalate to yarn user and cannot escalate to root user, remove the permission to escalate to yarn user from them.