CVE-2023-26031

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These operations are a requirement for \"YARN Secure Containers\".\n \nIn an installation using the hadoop.tar.gz file the binary's owner is that of the installing user, and without the suid permission is not at risk. \n\nHowever, Apache BIgtop installations set the owner and permissions such that installations may be vulnerable\n\nThe container-executor\u00a0binary is only vulnerable on some Hadoop/Bigtop releases. It is possible to verify whether a version is vulnerable using the readelf command."}], "credits": [{"lang": "en", "type": "finder", "value": "Esa Hiltunen"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "finder", "value": "Mikko Kortelainen"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "sponsor", "value": "The Teragrep Project"}], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<br>Relative library resolution in linux container-executor binary in Apache Hadoop 3.3.1-3.3.4 on Linux allows local user to gain root privileges. If the YARN cluster is accepting work from remote (authenticated) users, this MAY permit remote users to gain root privileges.<br><br>Hadoop 3.3.0 updated the \"<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/SecureContainer.html\">YARN Secure Containers</a>\" to add a feature for executing user-submitted applications in isolated linux containers.<br><br>The native binary HADOOP_HOME/bin/container-executor is used to launch these containers; it must be owned by root and have the suid bit set in order for the YARN processes to run the containers as the specific users submitting the jobs.<br><br>The patch \"<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-10495\">YARN-10495</a>. make the rpath of container-executor configurable\" modified the library loading path for loading .so files from \"$ORIGIN/\" to \"\"$ORIGIN/:../lib/native/\". 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If the YARN cluster is accepting work from remote (authenticated) users, this MAY permit remote users to gain root privileges.\n\nHadoop 3.3.0 updated the \" YARN Secure Containers https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/SecureContainer.html \" to add a feature for executing user-submitted applications in isolated linux containers.\n\nThe native binary HADOOP_HOME/bin/container-executor is used to launch these containers; it must be owned by root and have the suid bit set in order for the YARN processes to run the containers as the specific users submitting the jobs.\n\nThe patch \" YARN-10495 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-10495 . make the rpath of container-executor configurable\" modified the library loading path for loading .so files from \"$ORIGIN/\" to \"\"$ORIGIN/:../lib/native/\". This is the a path through which libcrypto.so is located. Thus it is is possible for a user with reduced privileges to install a malicious libcrypto library into a path to which they have write access, invoke the container-executor command, and have their modified library executed as root.\nIf the YARN cluster is accepting work from remote (authenticated) users, and these users' submitted job are executed in the physical host, rather than a container, then the CVE permits remote users to gain root privileges.\n\nThe fix for the vulnerability is to revert the change, which is done in YARN-11441 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-11441 , \"Revert YARN-10495\". This patch is in hadoop-3.3.5.\n\nTo determine whether a version of container-executor is vulnerable, use the readelf command. If the RUNPATH or RPATH value contains the relative path \"./lib/native/\" then it is at risk\n\n$ readelf -d container-executor|grep 'RUNPATH\\|RPATH' \n0x000000000000001d (RUNPATH) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Library runpath: [$ORIGIN/:../lib/native/]\n\nIf it does not, then it is safe:\n\n$ readelf -d container-executor|grep 'RUNPATH\\|RPATH' \n0x000000000000001d (RUNPATH) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Library runpath: [$ORIGIN/]\n\nFor an at-risk version of container-executor to enable privilege escalation, the owner must be root and the suid bit must be set\n\n$ ls -laF /opt/hadoop/bin/container-executor\n---Sr-s---. 1 root hadoop 802968 May 9 20:21 /opt/hadoop/bin/container-executor\n\nA safe installation lacks the suid bit; ideally is also not owned by root.\n\n$ ls -laF /opt/hadoop/bin/container-executor\n-rwxr-xr-x. 1 yarn hadoop 802968 May 9 20:21 /opt/hadoop/bin/container-executor\n\nThis configuration does not support Yarn Secure Containers, but all other hadoop services, including YARN job execution outside secure containers continue to work."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "La resoluci\u00f3n relativa de la librer\u00eda en el binario contenedor-ejecutor de Linux en Apache Hadoop 3.3.1-3.3.4 en Linux permite al usuario local obtener privilegios de root. Si el cl\u00faster YARN acepta trabajo de usuarios remotos (autenticados), esto PUEDE permitir que los usuarios remotos obtengan privilegios de root. Hadoop 3.3.0 actualiz\u00f3 \" YARN Secure Containers https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/SecureContainer.html \" para agregar una funci\u00f3n para ejecutar aplicaciones enviadas por el usuario de forma aislada contenedores de Linux. El binario nativo HADOOP_HOME/bin/container-executor se utiliza para lanzar estos contenedores; debe ser propiedad de root y tener el bit suid configurado para que los procesos YARN ejecuten los contenedores como los usuarios espec\u00edficos que env\u00edan los trabajos. El parche \"YARN-10495 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-10495. make the rpath of container-executor configurable\" modific\u00f3 la ruta de carga de la librer\u00eda para cargar archivos .so de \"$ORIGIN/\" a \"\"$ORIGIN/:../lib/native/\". Esta es la ruta a trav\u00e9s de la cual se encuentra libcrypto.so. Por lo tanto, es posible que un usuario con privilegios reducidos instale una librer\u00eda libcrypto maliciosa en una ruta a la que tienen acceso de escritura, invocan el comando contenedor-ejecutor y ejecutan su librer\u00eda modificada como root. Si el cl\u00faster YARN acepta trabajo de usuarios remotos (autenticados) y el trabajo enviado por estos usuarios se ejecuta en el host f\u00edsico, en lugar de un contenedor, entonces el CVE permite a los usuarios remotos obtener privilegios de root. La soluci\u00f3n para la vulnerabilidad es revertir el cambio, lo cual se realiza en YARN-11441 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-11441, \"Revertir YARN-10495\". Este parche est\u00e1 en hadoop-3.3.5. Para determinar si una versi\u00f3n de container-executor es vulnerable, utilice el comando readelf. 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