THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-11768
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-11768

Hadoop vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
6.6%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
In Apache Hadoop 3.1.0 to 3.1.1, 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.0.3, 2.9.0 to 2.9.1, and 2.0.0-alpha to 2.8.4, the user/group information can be corrupted across storing in fsimage and reading back from fsimage.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Hadoop
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2019-10-04

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 6.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Apache Hadoop is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-11768.
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