CVE-2016-5001 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Hadoop

What is CVE-2016-5001?

CVE-2016-5001 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Hadoop, published on 30 Aug 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5001?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Hadoop.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5001?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common to a fixed version for your release line: 2.6.4 or 2.7.2.

Is CVE-2016-5001 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5001 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-17195 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in Connect2id Nimbus JOSE+JWT Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-15718 Exposure of Sensitive Information in Hadoop Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-8r28-r8cp-g6cp.