CVE-2017-15713

MEDIUM

Apache Hadoop Sensitive Information Exposure via Malicious Configuration

Title source: llm

Description

Vulnerability in Apache Hadoop 0.23.x, 2.x before 2.7.5, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, and 3.0.0-alpha through 3.0.0-beta1 allows a cluster user to expose private files owned by the user running the MapReduce job history server process. The malicious user can construct a configuration file containing XML directives that reference sensitive files on the MapReduce job history server host.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a790a251ace7213bde9f69777dedb453b1a01a6d18289c14a61d4f91%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0019

EPSS Percentile 40.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Products (12)

apache/hadoop 2.0.0 alpha

apache/hadoop 2.0.1 alpha

apache/hadoop 2.0.2 alpha

apache/hadoop 2.0.3 alpha

apache/hadoop 2.0.4 alpha

apache/hadoop 2.0.5 alpha

apache/hadoop 2.0.6 alpha

apache/hadoop 2.1.0 beta

apache/hadoop 2.1.1 beta

apache/hadoop 3.0.0 alpha1 (5 CPE variants)

... and 2 more

Published Jan 19, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026