Information disclosure in Hadoop - CVE-2016-5001
Published: August 30, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU38374
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5001
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Apache Foundation
Affected software:
Hadoop
Hadoop
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to gain access to sensitive information.
This is an information disclosure vulnerability in Apache Hadoop before 2.6.4 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 in the short-circuit reads feature of HDFS. A local user on an HDFS DataNode may be able to craft a block token that grants unauthorized read access to random files by guessing certain fields in the token.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-5001
Install update from vendor's website.