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CVE-2016-6811

Published

Last updated

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6811

Severity

8.8

High

CVSS CVSS_V3

Description

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.

References

  • https://images.chainguard.dev/security/CGA-2vg4-9xj6-92w3
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mf7c-35mq-75pj
  • https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd5b2cae60909e48f92608e00c8d99196390b8cfeca307%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E

Affected packages

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