This is an information disclosure vulnerability in Apache Hadoop before 2.6.4 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 in the short-circuit reads feature of…

Description

This is an information disclosure vulnerability in Apache Hadoop before 2.6.4 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 in the short-circuit reads feature of HDFS. A local user on an HDFS DataNode may be able to craft a block token that grants unauthorized read access to random files by guessing certain fields in the token.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.70% · top 47% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

• Information Disclosure
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-200

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation · Apache Hadoop

  • affected 2.1.0 to 2.6.3
  • affected 2.7.0 to 2.7.1

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.apache.hadoop:hadoop-commonGHSA-8r28-r8cp-g6cp (opens in a new tab)

References (3)

• 94950 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20161216 [SECURITY] CVE-2016-5001: Apache Hadoop Information Disclosure (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [flink-user] 20210703 Re: owasp-dependency-check is flagging flink 1.13 for scala 2.12.7 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-8r28-r8cp-g6cp (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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[![CVE-2016-5001](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2016-5001.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2016-5001)

Record last updated 16 Sept 2024, 19:51 UTC.