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CVE-2016-5001

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Hadoop

Also known as GHSA-8r28-r8cp-g6cp

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.7%
percentile 53%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.70% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.05.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD2.02.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub3.05.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
mavenorg.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common
<2.6.4
>=2.7.0, <2.7.2
2.6.4
2.7.2

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Hadoop

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

  • securityfocus.com /bid/94950 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • seclists.org /oss-sec/2016/q4/698 · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • lists.apache.org /thread.html/r66de86b9a608c1da70b2d27d765c11ec88edf6e5dd6f379ab33e072a%40%3Cuser.flink.apa · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5001 · advisory
  • lists.apache.org /thread.html/r66de86b9a608c1da70b2d27d765c11ec88edf6e5dd6f379ab33e072a@%3Cuser.flink.apach · web

Sources

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