CVE-2022-25168: Apache Hadoop: Command injection in org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.unTarUsingTar

[Masatake Iwasaki <iw...@apache.org>]

Severity: important

Versions affected:

2.0.0 to 2.10.1, 3.0.0-alpha to 3.2.3, 3.3.0 to 3.3.2

Description:

Apache Hadoop's FileUtil.unTar(File, File) API does not escape the
input file name before being passed to the shell. An attacker can
inject arbitrary commands.

This is only used in Hadoop 3.3
InMemoryAliasMap.completeBootstrapTransfer, which is only ever run by
a local user.

It has been used in Hadoop 2.x for yarn localization, which does
enable remote code execution.

It is used in Apache Spark, from the SQL command ADD ARCHIVE. As the
ADD ARCHIVE command adds new binaries to the classpath, being able to
execute shell scripts does not confer new permissions to the caller.

SPARK-38305. "Check existence of file before untarring/zipping", which
is included in 3.3.0, 3.1.4, 3.2.2, prevents shell commands being
executed, regardless of which version of the hadoop libraries are in
use.


Mitigation:

Users should upgrade to Apache Hadoop 2.10.2, 3.2.4, 3.3.3 or upper
(including HADOOP-18136).

Credit:

Apache Hadoop would like to thank Kostya Kortchinsky for reporting this issue.