oss-security - CVE-2016-5393: Apache Hadoop Privilege escalation vulnerability

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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:04:45 -0800
From: Yongjun Zhang <yjzhangal@...che.org>
To: security@...che.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, 
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, general@...oop.apache.org
Subject: CVE-2016-5393: Apache Hadoop Privilege escalation vulnerability

Hi,

Please see below the official announcement of a critical security
vulnerability that's discovered and subsequently fixed in Apache Hadoop
releases.

Thanks and best regards,

--Yongjun

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CVE-2016-5393: Apache Hadoop Privilege escalation vulnerability

Severity: Critical

Vendor:

The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:

Hadoop 2.6.x, 2.7.x

Description:

A remote user who can authenticate with the HDFS NameNode can possibly run
arbitrary commands as the hdfs user.

Mitigation:

2.7.x users should upgrade to 2.7.3

2.6.x users should upgrade to 2.6.5

Impact:

A remote user who can authenticate with the HDFS NameNode can possibly run
arbitrary commands with the same privileges as HDFS service.

Credit:

This issue was discovered by Freddie Rice.

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