CVE-2016-5001

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - security@apache.org

Published

2017-08-30

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Hadoop (Apache)
• Apache Hadoop (Apache Software Foundation)

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/698
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94950
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r66de86b9a608c1da70b2d27d765c11ec88edf6e5dd6f379ab33e072a%40%3Cuser.flink.apache.o…