Information disclosure in Hadoop - CVE-2017-15713
Published: January 19, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU37620
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15713
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Apache Foundation
Affected software:
Hadoop
Hadoop
Detailed vulnerability 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-15713
Install update from vendor's website.