Re: CVE-2020-9480: Apache Spark RCE vulnerability in auth-enabled standalone master

[Sean Owen <sr...@apache.org>]

I'm resending this CVE from several months ago to user@ and dev@, as
we understand that a tool to exploit it may be released soon.

The most straightforward mitigation for those that are affected (using
the standalone master, where spark.authenticate is necessary) is to
update to 2.4.6 or 3.0.0+.
For those using vendor distros, you may want to check with your vendor
about whether the relevant patch has been applied.

Sean


On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 4:49 PM Sean Owen <sr...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Severity: Important
>
> Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
>
> Versions Affected:
> Apache Spark 2.4.5 and earlier
>
> Description:
> 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 without the shared key. This can be leveraged to execute
> shell commands on the host machine.
>
> This does not affect Spark clusters using other resource managers
> (YARN, Mesos, etc).
>
>
> Mitigation:
> Users should update to Spark 2.4.6 or 3.0.0.
> Where possible, network access to the cluster machines should be
> restricted to trusted hosts only.
>
> Credit:
> Ayoub Elaassal
>
> References:
> https://spark.apache.org/security.html

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