CVE-2012-1574

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-04-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

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 products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Hadoop: 0.20.203.0, 0.20.204.0, 0.20.205.0, 0.23.0, 0.23.1, 1.0.0 (+1)
Cloudera Cdh: cdh3-0, cdh3-1, cdh3-2
Cloudera Hadoop: 0.20-sbin, 0.20.1+169, 0.20.2+923

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-04/0051.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/70
http://secunia.com/advisories/48775
http://secunia.com/advisories/48776
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52939
https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/DOC/Cloudera+Security+Bulletin
https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/csb_topic_1.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-04/0051.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/70
http://secunia.com/advisories/48775
http://secunia.com/advisories/48776
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52939

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