Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4

CVE-2016-6811 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

Learn more about our Cis Benchmark Audit For Apache Http Server.