spark-3.5: mark jackson-core GHSA-wf8f-6423-gfxg as pending-upstream-fix #19330
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jackson-core upgrade to 2.13.0+ requires incompatible Hadoop infrastructure changes including DynConstructors utility class. Waiting for Apache Spark and Hadoop to officially support jackson-core 2.13.0+ in future releases.
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Jun 11, 2025
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Summary
This PR marks jackson-core vulnerability GHSA-wf8f-6423-gfxg as pending-upstream-fix for spark-3.5.
Technical Details
The vulnerability affects jackson-core's
JsonLocation._appendSourceDescmethod, which can leak up to 500 bytes of unintended memory content in exception messages when parsing JSON from byte arrays with offsets.Why We Can't Fix This Now
Upgrading to jackson-core 2.13.0+ (which fixes this vulnerability) requires significant code changes in Hadoop including:
org.apache.hadoop.util.dynamic.DynConstructorsutility classNetUtils,WebHdfsFileSystem)The patch from HADOOP-19259 cannot be cleanly applied to Hadoop 3.3.6 (used by Spark) due to these missing infrastructure components.
Resolution
Waiting for Apache Spark and Hadoop to officially support jackson-core 2.13.0+ in future releases.
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