Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-mapreduce-client-core  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEHADOOP-480503
  • published19 Dec 2016
  • disclosed19 Dec 2016
  • creditKihwal Lee

Introduced: 19 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-5001  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-mapreduce-client-core 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 Information Exposure via 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.