CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2016-5001
Medium (5.5) in apache hadoop. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common 2.6.4, 2.7.2.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apache:hadoop
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-8r28-r8cp-g6cp | Maven | org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common | <2.6.4 | 2.6.4 |
| GHSA-8r28-r8cp-g6cp | Maven | org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common | >=2.7.0 <2.7.2 | 2.7.2 |