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SCA: security update for org.apache.spark:spark-parent_2.11, pyspark (GHSA-wgx7-jwwm-cgjv)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419928

Description

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

 - In Apache Spark 2.4.5 and earlier, a standalone resource manager's master may be configured to require
 authentication (spark.authenticate) via a shared secret. When enabled, however, a specially-crafted RPC to
 the master can succeed in starting an application's resources on the Spark cluster, even without the
 shared key. This can be leveraged to execute shell commands on the host machine. This does not affect
 Spark clusters using other resource managers (YARN, Mesos, etc). (CVE-2020-9480)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wgx7-jwwm-cgjv

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 419928

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-9480

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-9480