CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-6811

Published: Apr 11, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025

CVSS 3.x

8.8

HIGH

Source:

NVD

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

CVSS 2.x

9 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

7.5 IMPORTANT

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6811
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Hadoop	Apache	2.2.0 (including)	2.7.3 (including)

References

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