Improper access control in Hadoop - CVE-2016-5393

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Improper access control in Hadoop - CVE-2016-5393

Published: November 29, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU39999
CSH Severity: High
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:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5393
CWE-ID: CWE-284
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 user to execute arbitrary code.

In Apache Hadoop 2.6.x before 2.6.5 and 2.7.x before 2.7.3, a remote user who can authenticate with the HDFS NameNode can possibly run arbitrary commands with the same privileges as the HDFS service.


How to mitigate CVE-2016-5393

Install update from vendor's website.

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