Apache Hadoop Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Jun 2017)

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:apache:hadoop";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106870");
  script_version("2026-01-28T05:49:43+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-01-28 05:49:43 +0000 (Wed, 28 Jan 2026)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-06-14 10:24:52 +0700 (Wed, 14 Jun 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"8.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-06-09 16:21:03 +0000 (Fri, 09 Jun 2017)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-7669");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("Apache Hadoop Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Jun 2017)");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Privilege escalation");
  script_dependencies("gb_apache_hadoop_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("apache/hadoop/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Apache Hadoop is prone to a privilege escalation
  vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The LinuxContainerExecutor runs docker commands as root with
  insufficient input validation. When the docker feature is enabled, authenticated users can run
  commands as root.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Apache Hadoop versions 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha1 and 3.0.0-alpha2 are
  known to be affected.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Users of Apache Hadoop 2.8.0 should leave Docker functionality
  disabled until Hadoop 2.8.1 is released. Users of Apache Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha1 and
  Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha2 should update to Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha3 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://lists.apache.org/thread/xwqp6ycyrd4nyqdl2w19o1mhfs1nz3n3");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/394");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
  exit(0);

if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, port: port))
  exit(0);

if (version == "2.8.0") {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "2.8.1 (See referenced advisory)");
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version == "3.0.0-alpha1" || version == "3.0.0-alpha2") {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "3.0.0-alpha3");
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);