#VU37620 Information disclosure in Hadoop - CVE-2017-15713

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#VU37620 Information disclosure in Hadoop - CVE-2017-15713

Published: January 19, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU37620
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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
Vulnerable software:
Hadoop
Software vendor:
Apache Foundation

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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