CVE-2018-1296
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Hadoop
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.57%
Description
In Apache Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.0.0, 2.9.0, 2.8.0 to 2.8.3, and 2.5.0 to 2.7.5, HDFS exposes extended attribute key/value pairs during listXAttrs, verifying only path-level search access to the directory rather than path-level read permission to the referent.
How to fix CVE-2018-1296
To remediate CVE-2018-1296, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.7.6 or later
Is CVE-2018-1296 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.7.6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |