CVE-2014-0229

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Apache Hadoop 0.23.x before 0.23.11 and 2.x before 2.4.1, as used in Cloudera CDH 5.0.x before 5.0.2, do not check authorization for the (1) refreshNamenodes, (2) deleteBlockPool, and (3) shutdownDatanode HDFS admin commands, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (DataNodes shutdown) or perform unnecessary operations by issuing a command.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Hadoop: 0.23.0, 0.23.1, 0.23.3, 0.23.4, 0.23.5, 0.23.6 (+16)
Cloudera Cdh: 5.0.0, 5.0.0-beta, 5.0.0-beta2

References

https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/csb_topic_1.html#concept_i1q_xvk_2r
https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/csb_topic_1.html#concept_i1q_xvk_2r

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