CVE-2018-1296

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

In Apache Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.0.0, 2.9.0, 2.8.0 to 2.8.3, and 2.5.0 to 2.7.5, HDFS exposes extended attribute key/value pairs during listXAttrs, verifying only path-level search access to the directory rather than path-level read permission to the referent.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Hadoop: from 2.5.0 through 2.7.5; 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.9.0, 3.0.0 (+5)

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106764
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a5b15bc76fbdad2ee40761aacf954a13aeef67e305f86d483f267e8e%40%3Cuser.hadoop.apache.org%3E
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106764
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a5b15bc76fbdad2ee40761aacf954a13aeef67e305f86d483f267e8e%40%3Cuser.hadoop.apache.org%3E

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