Spark
Vendor:
First CVE: Jul 12, 2017 · Active for 9 years
22
Total CVEs
More Total CVEs than 94% of tracked products
2.2
Avg CVEs / Year
Higher CVE frequency than 73% of tracked products
7.1
Avg CVSS
Higher Avg CVSS than 43% of tracked products
4.5%
KEV Rate
Higher KEV Rate than 97% of tracked products
Trends Over Time
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact Spark over time
Volume of CVEsAvg CVSS Base Score
First CVE
Jul 12, 2017
9 years ago
Most Recent CVE
Mar 16, 2026
130 days ago
CVE Severity & Scoring
Spark22 CVEs
45%
36%
18%
All CVEs352,294 CVEs
45%
40%
11%
MediumHighCritical
Attack Vector
Local3 (13.6%)
Network19 (86.4%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Physical0 (0.0%)
Adjacent Network0 (0.0%)
Attack Complexity
Low18 (81.8%)
High4 (18.2%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
User Interaction
None19 (86.4%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Required3 (13.6%)
Privileges Required
Low10 (45.5%)
High0 (0.0%)
None12 (54.5%)
Unknown0 (0.0%)
Top CVEs
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (22 CVEs).
22 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2022-33891HIGH 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 permi | Jul 18, 2022 | 8.8 | 98 | YES | YES |
CVE-2023-32007HIGH ** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** The Apache Spark UI offers the possibility to enable ACLs via the configuration option spark.acls.enable. With an authentication filter, this checks | May 2, 2023 | 8.8 | 68 | NO | NO |
CVE-2020-27223MEDIUM In Eclipse Jetty 9.4.6.v20170531 to 9.4.36.v20210114 (inclusive), 10.0.0, and 11.0.0 when Jetty handles a request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of “quality | Feb 26, 2021 | 5.3 | 61 | NO | NO |
CVE-2020-9480CRITICAL In Apache Spark 2.4.5 and earlier, a standalone resource manager's master may be configured to require authentication (spark.authenticate) via a shared secret. When enabled, howeve | Jun 23, 2020 | 9.8 | 57 | NO | YES |
CVE-2018-11770MEDIUM From version 1.3.0 onward, Apache Spark's standalone master exposes a REST API for job submission, in addition to the submission mechanism used by spark-submit. In standalone, the | Aug 13, 2018 | 4.2 | 55 | NO | YES |
CVE-2019-20445CRITICAL HttpObjectDecoder.java in Netty before 4.1.44 allows a Content-Length header to be accompanied by a second Content-Length header, or by a Transfer-Encoding header. | Jan 29, 2020 | 9.1 | 35 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-17190CRITICAL In all versions of Apache Spark, its standalone resource manager accepts code to execute on a 'master' host, that then runs that code on 'worker' hosts. The master itself does not, | Nov 19, 2018 | 9.8 | 34 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-10172HIGH A flaw was found in org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl:1.9.x libraries. XML external entity vulnerabilities similar CVE-2016-3720 also affects codehaus jackson-mapper-asl libr | Nov 18, 2019 | 7.5 | 33 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-22946CRITICAL In Apache Spark versions prior to 3.4.0, applications using spark-submit can specify a 'proxy-user' to run as, limiting privileges. The application can execute code with the privil | Apr 17, 2023 | 9.9 | 32 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-8024MEDIUM In Apache Spark 2.1.0 to 2.1.2, 2.2.0 to 2.2.1, and 2.3.0, it's possible for a malicious user to construct a URL pointing to a Spark cluster's UI's job and stage info pages, and if | Jul 12, 2018 | 5.4 | 30 | NO | YES |
Exploit Exposure
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (22 CVEs).
CISA KEV
1 CVE
4.5% of CVEs· 97th percentile
Metasploit
2 CVEs
9.1% of CVEs· 97th percentile
Nuclei
3 CVEs
13.6% of CVEs· 97th percentile
ExploitDB
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Social Chatter
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (22 CVEs).
Media Mentions
Signals from CVEs in this product scope (22 CVEs).
Top CNAs Publishing CVEs For Spark
Top CWEs
Versions
| Version | CVE Count | Avg CVSS | Avg EPSS | KEV | Exploits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0.1 | 1 | 8.8 | 5.3% | 0 | 0 |
| 4.0.0 | 1 | 8.8 | 5.3% | 0 | 0 |
| 3.5.0 | 1 | 5.9 | 1.5% | 0 | 0 |
| 3.3.0 | 1 | 5.4 | 1.5% | 0 | 0 |
| 3.1.1 | 1 | 5.3 | 78.0% | 0 | 0 |
| 3.0.3 | 1 | 4.8 | 8.1% | 0 | 0 |
| 3.0.1 | 1 | 7.5 | 17.0% | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4.8 | 2 | 7.0 | 10.8% | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4.7 | 1 | 9.1 | 13.5% | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3.0 | 2 | 5.0 | 2.9% | 0 | 1 |
| 2.1.1 | 1 | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1.0 | 1 | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0 | 0 |
| 2.0.2 | 1 | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0 | 0 |
| 2.0.1 | 1 | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0 | 0 |
| 2.0.0 | 1 | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6.3 | 1 | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6.2 | 1 | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6.1 | 1 | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6.0 | 1 | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0 | 0 |