Arbitrary User Impersonation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-30625
  • published17 Jun 2014
  • disclosed12 Apr 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Apr 2012

CVE-2012-1574  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client is an Apache Hadoop Client.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary User Impersonation. The Kerberos/MapReduce security functionality in Apache Hadoop as used in Cloudera CDH CDH3u0 through CDH3u2, Cloudera hadoop-0.20-sbin before 0.20.2+923.197, and other products, allows remote authenticated users to impersonate arbitrary cluster user accounts via unspecified vectors.