Description
Spark's Apache Maven-based build includes a convenience script, 'build/mvn', that downloads and runs a zinc server to speed up compilation. It has been included in release branches since 1.3.x, up to and including master. This server will accept connections from external hosts by default. A specially-crafted request to the zinc server could cause it to reveal information in files readable to the developer account running the build. Note that this issue does not affect end users of Spark, only developers building Spark from source code.
Remediation
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105756
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2b11aa4201e36f2ec8f728e722fe33758410f07784379cbefd0bda9d%40%3Cdev.spark.apache.org%3E
https://spark.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2018-11804
Related Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-16046 Vulnerability in npm package mariadb
CVE-2019-19919 Vulnerability in maven package org.webjars:handlebars
CVE-2018-20433 Vulnerability in maven package com.mchange:c3p0
CVE-2020-2247 Vulnerability in maven package org.jenkins-ci.plugins:klocwork
CVE-2020-9484 Vulnerability in maven package org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina