File Permission Manipulation Via Symlink Attack

hadoop-common-yarn is vulnerable to file permission manipulation. Using a symlink attack in a public tar archive, attackers can change the permissions on files to be world-readable...

CVE-2014-3627

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...