CVE-2016-5001
N/A
Published: August 30, 2017 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:48 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorHadoop
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (3)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/698VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94950Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r66de86b9a608c1da70b2d27d765c11ec88edf6e5dd6f379ab33e072a%40%3Cuser.flink.apache.org%3EQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-200
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