Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Hadoop - CVE-2015-7430

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Hadoop - CVE-2015-7430

Published: January 2, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU40564
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7430
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Apache Foundation
Affected software:
Hadoop

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

The Hadoop connector 1.1.1, 2.4, 2.5, and 2.7.0-0 before 2.7.0-3 for IBM Spectrum Scale and General Parallel File System (GPFS) allows local users to read or write to arbitrary GPFS data via unspecified vectors.


How to mitigate CVE-2015-7430

Install update from vendor's website.

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