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CVE-2022-33891

OS Command Injection: Is CVE-2022-33891 real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community verdict.

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signals

public sources

Exploited in wild
Yes
CISA KEV · Mar 7, 2023
Public exploit
Metasploit +1
Metasploit/EDB/PoC
Base severity
8.8 High
CVSS
Exploitation prob.
93%
FIRST EPSS
Weakness
CWE-78 · OS Command Injection
CWE

Confirmed exploited in the wild. Patch this first, regardless of the base score.

cisa ssvc

CISA Vulnrichment · assessed

Exploitation
Active
in the wild
Automatable
No
at scale
Technical impact
Total
on success

CISA decision, by how critical the affected system is to you:

  • low impact → Track
  • medium impact → Attend
  • high impact → Act

Track: normal patch cycle · Track*: watch closely · Attend: patch sooner · Act: patch now. About SSVC ↗

public exploits

links to sources — we don’t host code

A working exploit is publicly available from a maintained source. Treat this as higher urgency and verify your exposure.

affected packages

GHSA-4x9r-j582-cgr8 · GitHub rates it high
  • Mavenorg.apache.spark:spark-parent_2.12
    Vulnerable
    ≤ 3.0.3; ≥ 3.1.1, < 3.2.2
    Fixed in
    3.2.2
  • PyPIpyspark
    Vulnerable
    < 3.1.3; ≥ 3.2.0, < 3.2.2
    Fixed in
    3.1.3, 3.2.2

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), via OSV.dev. Check your lockfile version against the ranges above.

baseline read

auto · not a community verdict

Real — exploited in the wild

CISA confirms active exploitation. Treat scanner hits as true positives unless your specific version or config is unaffected.

Based on CISA KEV

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Affected:Apache

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Published · Added to CISA KEV (232 days after publication)

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timeline

  1. CISA SSVC assessment · exploitation: active
  2. Added to CISA KEV · confirmed exploited in the wild
  3. Added to VulnCheck KEV · reported exploited in the wild
  4. Published by NVD

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Field notes & remediation

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  • 0
    Field note · TruePositive EditorialCurated

    Apache Spark Command Injection Vulnerability — Apache Spark contains a command injection vulnerability via Spark User Interface (UI) when Access Control Lists (ACLs) are enabled. Listed in the CISA KEV catalog (added 2023-03-07) — confirmed exploited in the wild, not theoretical. FIRST EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at ~93%. Treat it as real and prioritize remediation over triage.

  • 0
    Remediation · TruePositive EditorialCurated

    Required action for Apache Spark: Apply updates per vendor instructions. CISA set a federal remediation due date of 2023-03-28. After patching, verify the vulnerable path is no longer reachable before closing the finding.

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Same weakness: CWE-78 · OS Command Injection.