CVE-2016-6811

hadoop: privilege escalation to root

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · May 1, 2018

Updated · May 13, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-268 · Privilege Chaining