CVE-2016-6811 (NVD)

2017-04-11

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.

Products Hadoop
Type Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CWE-264)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd5b2cae60909e48f92608e00c8d99196390b8cfeca307%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E