CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. It affects Apache.
CVE
CVE-2016-5001
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.63%
Apache
Original NVD 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.
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