Akira Ajisaka
2018-05-01 04:02:58 UTC
CVE-2016-6811: Apache Hadoop Privilege escalation vulnerability
Severity: Critical
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:
All the Apache Hadoop versions from 2.2.0 to 2.7.3
Description:
A user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.
Mitigation:
Users should upgrade to 2.7.4 or upper.
If you are using the affected version of Apache Hadoop and there are
any users who can escalate to yarn user and cannot escalate to root user,
remove the permission to escalate to yarn user from them.
Credit:
This issue was discovered by Freddie Rice.
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Severity: Critical
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:
All the Apache Hadoop versions from 2.2.0 to 2.7.3
Description:
A user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.
Mitigation:
Users should upgrade to 2.7.4 or upper.
If you are using the affected version of Apache Hadoop and there are
any users who can escalate to yarn user and cannot escalate to root user,
remove the permission to escalate to yarn user from them.
Credit:
This issue was discovered by Freddie Rice.
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