diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8b2130f2d9f5..2c6f458ee25f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1399,8 +1399,24 @@
             <groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId>
             <artifactId>*</artifactId>
           </exclusion>
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
         </exclusions>
       </dependency>
+      <!--
+        Hack to exclude org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager:jar:tests.
+        For some reasons, SBT starts to pull the dependencies of 'hadoop-yarn-server-tests' above
+        with 'tests' classifier after upgrading SBT 1.3 (SPARK-21708). Otherwise, some tests might
+        fail, see also SPARK-33104.
+      -->
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+        <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager</artifactId>
+        <version>${yarn.version}</version>
+        <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
         <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-web-proxy</artifactId>
diff --git a/resource-managers/yarn/pom.xml b/resource-managers/yarn/pom.xml
index da715c6bdc59..f6d6ddccc99c 100644
--- a/resource-managers/yarn/pom.xml
+++ b/resource-managers/yarn/pom.xml
@@ -65,6 +65,15 @@
           <classifier>tests</classifier>
           <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <!--
+          Hack to exclude org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager:jar:tests.
+          See the parent pom.xml for more details.
+        -->
+        <dependency>
+          <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+          <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager</artifactId>
+          <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
       </dependencies>
     </profile>
   </profiles>