CVE-2017-15713

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Vulnerability in Apache Hadoop 0.23.x, 2.x before 2.7.5, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, and 3.0.0-alpha through 3.0.0-beta1 allows a cluster user to expose private files owned by the user running the MapReduce job history server process. The malicious user can construct a configuration file containing XML directives that reference sensitive files on the MapReduce job history server host.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Hadoop: from 0.23.0 through 0.23.11; from 2.2.0 through 2.8.2; 2.0.0-alpha, 2.0.1-alpha, 2.0.2-alpha, 2.0.3-alpha, 2.0.4-alpha, 2.0.5-alpha (+8)

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a790a251ace7213bde9f69777dedb453b1a01a6d18289c14a61d4f91%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a790a251ace7213bde9f69777dedb453b1a01a6d18289c14a61d4f91%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E

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