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CVE-2015-7831

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

In Cloudera Hue, there is privilege escalation by a read-only user when CDH 5.x brefore 5.4.9 is used.

Affected products

• Cloudera Cdh: from 5.0.0 before 5.4.9 — fixed in 5.4.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cloudera Cdh 5.4.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/Security-Bulletin.html#concept_gd2_r25_2v
• https://docs.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/Security-Bulletin.html#concept_gd2_r25_2v

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