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CVE-2018-9159
In Spark before 2.7.2, a remote attacker can read unintended static files via various representations of absolute or relative pathnames,…
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 4.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
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Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.4% · top 8.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavencom.sparkjava:spark-coreGHSA-76qr-mmh8-cp8f (opens in a new tab)
References
7
- https://github.com/perwendel/spark/issues/981 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/perwendel/spark/commit/a221a864db28eb736d36041df2fa6eb8839fc5cd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2020 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2405 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/perwendel/spark/commit/ce9e11517eca69e58ed4378d1e47a02bd06863cc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://sparkjava.com/news#spark-272-released (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/perwendel/spark/commit/030e9d00125cbd1ad759668f85488aba1019c668 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0533 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-76qr-mmh8-cp8f (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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