HIGH
hadoop: privilege escalation to root
Published Apr 11, 2017
8.8
HIGHCVSS 3.0
EPSS 2.62%
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
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
8.8 HIGH NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
1 other source (Red Hat) ▾
7.5 HIGH Red Hat
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
9.0 HIGH NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
2.62% 0.02620
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.02620
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (13 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 2.62% (0.02620) | 84.91th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.62% (0.02620) | 83.41th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 0.56% (0.00556) | 65.50th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 1.79% (0.01790) | 71.53th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.56% (0.00556) | 66.17th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.10% (0.00105) | 44.49th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 8, 2023 | 0.10% (0.00105) | 41.83th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 8, 2023 | 0.07% (0.00075) | 30.67th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.10% (0.00105) | 41.12th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 27.89th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Sep 10, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 26.24th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 24.24th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 10.50th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (7)
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6811 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575106 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mf7c-35mq-75pj Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd5b2cae60909e48f92608e00c8d99196390b8cfeca307%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd5b2cae60909e48f92608e00c8d99196390b8cfeca307@%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6811
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6811
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 11, 2017
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Aug 12, 2016
Link CVE-2016-6811
CISA Vulnrichment
GHSA-MF7C-35MQ-75PJ Updated n/a