Apache Spark - Authentication Bypass

In Apache Spark 2.4.5 and earlier, a standalone resource manager's master may be configured to require authentication spark.authenticate via a shared secret. When enabled, however, a specially-crafted RPC to the master can succeed in starting an application's resources on the Spark cluster, even...

CVE-2017-7678: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

In Apache Spark before 2.2.0, it is possible for an attacker to take advantage of a user's trust in the server to trick them into visiting a link that points to a shared Spark cluster and submits data including MHTML to the Spark master, or history server. This data, which could contain a script,...