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CVE-2016-6811

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

In Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache Hadoop: from 2.2.0 through 2.7.3

References

• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd5b2cae60909e48f92608e00c8d99196390b8cfeca307%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd5b2cae60909e48f92608e00c8d99196390b8cfeca307%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E

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