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Privilege Escalation Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-hdfs package, versions [0.23.1, 0.23.11) [2.0.0-alpha, 2.4.1)

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.07% (31st percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-174576
  • published 2 May 2019
  • disclosed 31 May 2014
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 31 May 2014

CVE-2014-0229 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-264 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-hdfs to version 0.23.11, 2.4.1 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-hdfs is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. Does not check authorization for the refreshNamenodes, deleteBlockPool and shutdownDatanode HDFS admin commands, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service or perform unnecessary operations by issuing a command.