Apache Hadoop Short-Circuit Reads Information Disclosure Vulnerability

CVE-2016-5001 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

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