Bug 1308835 (CVE-2015-1776) - CVE-2015-1776 hadoop: disclosure of encrypted data in Hadoop MapReduce
Summary: CVE-2015-1776 hadoop: disclosure of encrypted data in Hadoop MapReduce
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-1776
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1308836
Blocks: 1308838
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Reported: 2016-02-16 09:10 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:20 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: hadoop 2.7.2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-10-13 11:18:35 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-02-16 09:10:16 UTC 
The encryption key/secret used to encrypt the intermediate data
generated by an Apache Hadoop MapReduce job is stored as a token in
the job’s credentials and are subsequently serialized to disk (
without any additional encryption/protection ) into the machine's
local dirs.  A malicious user who has access to this credentials file
can load the tokens from the file, read the secret and then decrypt
the intermediate data which is also stored in machine local dirs.

External reference:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/344
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-02-16 09:13:26 UTC 
Created hadoop tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1308836]
Comment 2 Christopher Tubbs 2016-06-23 16:24:44 UTC 
This vulnerability apply to a feature added to Hadoop in 2.6.x versions, which are not available in Fedora, which currently packages 2.4.1. The workaround is to avoid using this feature. The vulnerability is addressed in 2.7.x.
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