CVE-2016-6811

8.8 highEPSS 2.6%

In Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

Severity

8.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-264
Published: 2017-04-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Advisory	Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
GHSA-mf7c-35mq-75pj	Maven	org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common	>=2.0.0-alpha <2.7.4	2.7.4