Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Apache Spark

CVE-2017-7678 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

In Apache Spark before 2.2.0, it is possible for an attacker to take advantage of a user's trust in the server to trick them into visiting a link that points to a shared Spark cluster and submits data including MHTML to the Spark master, or history server. This data, which could contain a script, would then be reflected back to the user and could be evaluated and executed by MS Windows-based clients. It is not an attack on Spark itself, but on the user, who may then execute the script inadvertently when viewing elements of the Spark web UIs.

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