CVE-2016-6811 (GCVE-0-2016-6811)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-11 14:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:25
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2018-05-01 00:00
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