Information disclosure in IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring

1) Information disclosure

EUVDB-ID: #VU37620

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 5.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15713

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Information exposure

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to gain access to sensitive information.

Vulnerability in Apache Hadoop 0.23.x, 2.x before 2.7.5, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, and 3.0.0-alpha through 3.0.0-beta1 allows a cluster user to expose private files owned by the user running the MapReduce job history server process. The malicious user can construct a configuration file containing XML directives that reference sensitive files on the MapReduce job history server host.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring: 2.0 - 2.3 Fixpack 4

External links

http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6606309

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.