CVE-2012-1574

Hadoop vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

4.8%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

The Kerberos/MapReduce security functionality in Apache Hadoop 0.20.203.0 through 0.20.205.0, 0.23.x before 0.23.2, and 1.0.x before 1.0.2, as used in Cloudera CDH CDH3u0 through CDH3u2, Cloudera hadoop-0.20-sbin before 0.20.2+923.197, and other products, allows remote authenticated users to impersonate arbitrary cluster user accounts via unspecified vectors.

Affected vendor

Apache

Affected product

Hadoop

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-310

Published

2012-04-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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