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Improper Access Control Affecting org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common package, versions [2.6.0, 2.6.5) [2.7.0, 2.7.3)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-30628
  • published 29 Nov 2016
  • disclosed 29 Nov 2016
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 29 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-5393 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-284 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common to version 2.6.5, 2.7.3 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common 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 Improper Access Control. A remote user who can authenticate with the HDFS NameNode can possibly run arbitrary commands with the same privileges as the HDFS service.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High