Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1615652
CVE-2018-11770 spark: Missing authentication allows users to run driver programs via the REST API
Last modified: 2018-09-03 20:09:48 EDT
Apache Spark from version 1.3.0 onward exposes a REST API for job submission, in addition to the submission mechanism used by spark-submit. In standalone, the config property spark.authenticate.secret establishes a shared secret for authenticating requests to submit jobs via spark-submit. However, the REST API does not use this or any other authentication mechanism, and this is not adequately documented. In this case, a user would be able to run a driver program without authenticating, but not launch executors, using the REST API. External Reference: https://spark.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2018-11770