CVE-2018-1296 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Hadoop

What is CVE-2018-1296?

CVE-2018-1296 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Hadoop, published on 7 Feb 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Apache Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.0.0, 2.9.0, 2.8.0 to 2.8.3, and 2.5.0 to 2.7.5, HDFS exposes extended attribute key/value pairs during listXAttrs, verifying only path-level search access to the directory rather than path-level read permission to the referent.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1296?

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

Products include Apache Hadoop.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1296?

Upgrade org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main to a fixed version for your release line: 2.7.6, 2.8.4 or 2.9.1.

Is CVE-2018-1296 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1296 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Hadoop

• CVE-2022-25168 Command injection in org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.unTarUsingTar Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-37404 Heap buffer overflow in libhdfs native library Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26612 Arbitrary file write in FileUtil#unpackEntries on Windows Critical 9.8
• 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
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Also known as GHSA-v569-g72v-q434.