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CVE-2016-5001

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CVE-2016-5001

Published: Aug 30, 2017

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Hadoop

affected
2.1.0 to 2.6.3
affected
2.7.0 to 2.7.1

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