Apache HadoopGHSA-8r28-r8cp-g6cp
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Hadoop
Medium5.5CVE-2016-5001 · Published May 13, 2022 · updated Nov 8, 2023
This is an information disclosure vulnerability in Apache Hadoop before 2.6.4 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 in the short-circuit reads feature of HDFS. A local user on an HDFS DataNode may be able to craft a block token that grants unauthorized read access to random files by guessing certain fields in the token.
Affected versions
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common Maven | < 2.6.4 | 2.6.4 |
| >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.2 | 2.7.2 |
Details and references
- CVSS 3.0
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Severity from
- GitHub (reviewed advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-200
- Also known as
- CVE-2016-5001
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