5. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

  • CVE-2014-0229: Several HDFS admin commands lack proper privilege checks

  • CVE-2013-6446: Apache Hadoop job history server vulnerability

    Severity: Major

    Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation

    Versions Affected: Hadoop 0.23.1 to 0.23.9, Hadoop 2.0.0 to 2.2.0

    Users Affected: Users who have enabled Hadoop's MapReduce security features

    Impact: Vulnerability allows an unauthorized user to retrieve job details from the job history server

    Mitigation: Hadoop 0.23.x users should upgrade to 0.23.10, Hadoop 2.x users should upgrade to 2.3.0

    Credit: This issue was discovered by Koji Noguchi of Yahoo


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