CVE-2017-3162 (GCVE-0-2017-3162)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-26 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:16
VLAI
Summary
HDFS clients interact with a servlet on the DataNode to browse the HDFS namespace. The NameNode is provided as a query parameter that is not validated in Apache Hadoop before 2.7.0.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • Unchecked parameter in query string
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1074 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98017 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://s.apache.org/k2ss mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r127f75748fc… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r66de86b9a60… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Hadoop Affected: 2.6.x and earlier
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Date Public
2017-04-25 00:00
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