CVE-2016-6811
Insecure Inherited Permissions in Apache Hadoop
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.54%
Description
In Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.
How to fix CVE-2016-6811
To remediate CVE-2016-6811, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Maven/org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common—upgrade to 2.7.4 or later
Is CVE-2016-6811 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 2.0.0-alpha, < 2.7.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |