CVE-2016-6811

high

Published 2017-04-11 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

Insecure Inherited Permissions in Apache Hadoop

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Maven	org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common	`>=2.0.0-alpha,<2.7.4`	`2.7.4`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
apache	hadoop	`{"startIncluding":"2.2.0","endIncluding":"2.7.3"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.