Command injection in Hadoop - CVE-2016-6811

 

Command injection in Hadoop - CVE-2016-6811

Published: May 14, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12602
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6811
CWE-ID: CWE-77
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Apache Foundation
Affected software:
Hadoop

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper security restrictions. A remote attacker who can obtain yarn user access can inject and execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-6811

Update to version 2.7.4 or later.

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