Information disclosure in Hadoop - CVE-2018-1296
Published: January 29, 2019
Hadoop
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to HDFS exposes extended attribute key/value pairs during listXAttrs, verifying only path-level search access to the directory rather than path-level read permission to the referent. A remote attacker can sensitive data in extended attributes, such as HDFS encryption secrets.