CVE-2018-11766: Improper Privilege Management

November 27, 2018 (updated October 3, 2019)

Apache Hadoop contains an incomplete security fix for CVE-2016-6811. A user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/106035
lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff37bbbe09d5f03090e2dd2c3dea95de16ef4249e731f19b8959ce4c@%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11766

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