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CVE-2016-5393

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-11-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

In Apache Hadoop 2.6.x before 2.6.5 and 2.7.x before 2.7.3, a remote user who can authenticate with the HDFS NameNode can possibly run arbitrary commands with the same privileges as the HDFS service.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Hadoop: 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2 (+2)

References

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