Unvalidated Query Parameter in Hadoop HDFS Namespace Browsing Servlet

CVE-2017-3162 · HIGH Severity

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

HDFS clients interact with a servlet on the DataNode to browse the HDFS namespace. The NameNode is provided as a query parameter that is not validated in Apache Hadoop before 2.7.0.

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