Out-of-bounds write in Hadoop - CVE-2025-27821

 

Out-of-bounds write in Hadoop - CVE-2025-27821

Published: January 24, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU122008
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-27821
CWE-ID: CWE-787
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Apache Foundation
Affected software:
Hadoop

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to crash the application.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the URI parser within the HDFS native client. A local user can pass a specially crafted URI to the application and perform a denial of service attack. 


How to mitigate CVE-2025-27821

Install updates from vendor's website.

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