CVE-2016-5001
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Hadoop
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.12%
Description
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 fix CVE-2016-5001
To remediate CVE-2016-5001, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.6.4 or later
Is CVE-2016-5001 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.6.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |