HADOOP-15265. Exclude json-smart explicitly in hadoop-auth avoid being pulled in transitively. Contributed by Nishant Bangarwa.

hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/pom.xml

@@ -110,8 +110,20 @@
           <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
           <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
+        <!-- HACK.  Transitive dependency for nimbus-jose-jwt.  Needed for
+        packaging.  Please re-check this version when updating
+        nimbus-jose-jwt.  Please read HADOOP-14903 for more details.
+        -->
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>net.minidev</groupId>
+          <artifactId>json-smart</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>net.minidev</groupId>
+      <artifactId>json-smart</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
       <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>