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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-17190 json

Remote Code Execution in spark-core

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-phg2-9c5g-m4q7 , EUVD-2018-0765

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.8%
EPSS 8.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In all versions of Apache Spark, its standalone resource manager accepts code to execute on a 'master' host, that then runs that code on 'worker' hosts. The master itself does not, by design, execute user code. A specially-crafted request to the master can, however, cause the master to execute code too. Note that this does not affect standalone clusters with authentication enabled. While the master host typically has less outbound access to other resources than a worker, the execution of code on the master is nevertheless unexpected.

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Exploit prediction

8.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.spark:spark-core_2.11
all versions
 no fix listed
maven org.apache.spark:spark-core_2.10
all versions
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Spark

References

Sources

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