CVE-2018-11766
Arbitrary Command Execution in Hadoop
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.49%
Description
In Apache Hadoop 2.7.4 to 2.7.6, the security fix for CVE-2016-6811 is incomplete. A user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.
How to fix CVE-2018-11766
To remediate CVE-2018-11766, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Maven/org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main—upgrade to 2.7.7 or later
Is CVE-2018-11766 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 2.7.4, < 2.7.7
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 |