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CVE-2017-15536

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

An issue was discovered in Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW) 1.x before 1.2.0. Several web application vulnerabilities allow malicious authenticated users of CDSW to escalate privileges in CDSW. CDSW users can exploit these vulnerabilities in combination to gain root access to CDSW nodes, gain access to the CDSW database which includes Kerberos keytabs of CDSW users and bcrypt hashed passwords, and gain access to other privileged information such as session tokens, invitation tokens, and environment variables.

Affected products

• Cloudera Data Science Workbench: from 1.0.0 before 1.2.0 — fixed in 1.2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cloudera Data Science Workbench 1.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/Security-Bulletin.html#tsb_248
• https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/Security-Bulletin.html#tsb_248

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