Medium (6.5). EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common 0.23.11, 2.4.1.
Apache Hadoop 0.23.x before 0.23.11 and 2.x before 2.4.1, as used in Cloudera CDH 5.0.x before 5.0.2, do not check authorization for the (1) refreshNamenodes, (2) deleteBlockPool, and (3) shutdownDatanode HDFS admin commands, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (DataNodes shutdown) or perform unnecessary operations by issuing a command.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
6.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)