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CVE-2016-3131

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% 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-863

Description

Cloudera CDH before 5.6.1 allows authorization bypass via direct internal API calls.

Affected products

• Cloudera Cdh: from 5.0.0 before 5.3.10; from 5.4.0 before 5.4.10; from 5.5.0 before 5.5.4; 5.6.0 — fixed in 5.3.10, 5.4.10, 5.5.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cloudera Cdh 5.3.10, 5.4.10, 5.5.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/Security-Bulletin.html#tsb_120
• https://docs.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/Security-Bulletin.html#tsb_120

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