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SCA: security update for org.apache.spark:spark-core_2.11, pyspark (GHSA-fp5j-3fpf-mhj5)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422906

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if
 spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk (controlled by
 spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem); in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using broadcast and
 parallelize; and use of python udfs. (CVE-2019-10099)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fp5j-3fpf-mhj5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422906

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10099

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10099

cwe: CWE-312