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Medium · 5.3 Public exploit CVE-2018-9159 EUVD-2018-0533GHSA-76qr-mmh8-cp8f

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects com.sparkjava:spark-core

Published Mar 31, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Package: com.sparkjava:spark-core Ecosystem: Maven

Description

In Spark before 2.7.2, a remote attacker can read unintended static files via various representations of absolute or relative pathnames, as demonstrated by file: URLs and directory traversal sequences. NOTE: this product is unrelated to Ignite Realtime Spark.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

SUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SUSE Manager Server 3.1 release-notes-susemanager 3.1.8-5.38.1 SUSE-RU-2018:2639-1
SUSE Manager Server 3.1 spark 2.3-3.3.1 SUSE-SU-2018:2689-1
SUSE Manager Proxy 3.1 release-notes-susemanager-proxy 3.1.8-0.15.29.1 SUSE-RU-2018:2639-1

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 2 repositories

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven com.sparkjava:spark-core < 2.7.2 2.7.2 GHSA-76qr-mmh8-cp8f

Advisories 2

References