CVE-2014-3627: Apache Hadoop

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The YARN NodeManager daemon in Apache Hadoop 0.23.0 through 0.23.11 and 2.x before 2.5.2, when using Kerberos authentication, allows remote cluster users to change the permissions of certain files to world-readable via a symlink attack in a public tar archive, which is not properly handled during localization, related to distributed cache.

Affected products

• Apache Hadoop: version 0.23.0 only; version 0.23.1 only; version 0.23.3 only; version 0.23.4 only; version 0.23.5 only; version 0.23.6 only; …

Published 2014-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.