Exposure of Private Files in Apache Hadoop Job History Server

CVE-2017-15713 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Vulnerability in Apache Hadoop 0.23.x, 2.x before 2.7.5, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, and 3.0.0-alpha through 3.0.0-beta1 allows a cluster user to expose private files owned by the user running the MapReduce job history server process. The malicious user can construct a configuration file containing XML directives that reference sensitive files on the MapReduce job history server host.

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