CVE-2016-5001

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.

Published: Aug 30, 2017
Updated: Nov 8, 2023
CVE: CVE-2016-5001
GHSA: GHSA-8r28-r8cp-g6cp
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5.5
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-200

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
apache / hadoop	2.7.0	2.7.0.x
apache / hadoop	-	2.6.3.x
apache / hadoop	2.7.1	2.7.1.x
org.apache.hadoop / hadoop-common	-	2.6.4
org.apache.hadoop / hadoop-common	2.7.0	2.7.2

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/698
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94950
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r66de86b9a608c1da70b2d27d765c11ec88edf6e5dd6f379ab33e072a@%3Cuser.flink.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r66de86b9a608c1da70b2d27d765c11ec88edf6e5dd6f379ab33e072a%40%3Cuser.flink.apache.org%3E

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CVE-2016-5001

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