Apache Hadoop 2.7.3 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

🗓️ 03 May 2018 00:00:00Reported by Freddie RiceType

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Apache Hadoop 2.7.3 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2016-681

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CVE	CVE-2016-6811	11 Apr 201714:00	–	cve
Cvelist	CVE-2016-6811	11 Apr 201714:00	–	cvelist
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CVE-2016-6811: Apache Hadoop Privilege escalation vulnerability

Severity: Critical

Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
All the Apache Hadoop versions from 2.2.0 to 2.7.3

Description:
A user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

Mitigation:
Users should upgrade to 2.7.4 or upper.
If you are using the affected version of Apache Hadoop and there are
any users who can escalate to yarn user and cannot escalate to root user,
remove the permission to escalate to yarn user from them.


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03 May 2018 00:00Current

0.6Low risk

Vulners AI Score0.6

EPSS0.00538