CVE-2016-5001 (GCVE-0-2016-5001)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-30 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:51
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Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Information Disclosure
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94950 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/698 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: 2.1.0 to 2.6.3
Affected: 2.7.0 to 2.7.1
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Date Public
2016-12-16 00:00
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