# CVE-2019-10099: Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true.

- Also known as: GHSA-FP5J-3FPF-MHJ5, PYSEC-2019-114
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.3.3
- Published: 2019-08-07 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- Apache Apache Spark: version range not reported
- org.apache.spark:spark-core\_2.11 (Maven): fixed in 2.3.3
- pyspark (PyPI): fixed in 2.3.3

## Description

Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk (controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem); in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using broadcast and parallelize; and use of python udfs.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Apache Apache Spark, org.apache.spark:spark-core\_2.11, pyspark, upgrade to a fixed version (2.3.3) per the references below.
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## References

- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c2a39c207421797f82823a8aff488dcd332d9544038307bf69a2ba9e%40%3Cuser.spark.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rabe1d47e2bf8b8f6d9f3068c8d2679731d57fa73b3a7ed1fa82406d2%40%3Cissues.spark.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra216b7b0dd82a2c12c2df9d6095e689eb3f3d28164e6b6587da69fae%40%3Ccommits.spark.apache.org%3E

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