The Apache Spark UI offers the possibility to enable ACLs via the configuration option spark.acls.enable. With an authentication filter, this checks whether a user has access permissions to view or modify the application. If ACLs are enabled, a code path in HttpSecurityFilter can allow someone to perform impersonation by providing an arbitrary user name. A malicious user might then be able to reach a permission check function that will ultimately build a Unix shell command based on their input, and execute it. This will result in arbitrary shell command execution as the user Spark is currently running as. This affects Apache Spark versions 3.0.3 and earlier, versions 3.1.1 to 3.1.2, and versions 3.2.0 to 3.2.1.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-4x9r-j582-cgr8 Apache Spark UI can allow impersonation if ACLs enabled
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

Upgrade to supported Apache Spark maintenance release 3.1.3, 3.2.2, or 3.3.0 or later

History

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-21T23:15:38.160Z

Reserved: 2022-06-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-33891

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T08:09:22.687Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-07-18T07:15:07.600

Modified: 2025-10-22T00:18:06.323

Link: CVE-2022-33891

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-07-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-33891 - Bugzilla

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