Medium severity · published Aug 30, 2017
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
5.5
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 53% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HA
Hadoop · Apache
through 2.6.3; 2.7.0; 2.7.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5001
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5001
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/698
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94950
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r66de86b9a608c1da70b2d27d765c11ec88edf6e5dd6f379ab33e072a%40%3Cuser.flink.apache.org%3E
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