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Apache Ambari: vulnerabilities and CVEs
Apache Ambari has 26 published vulnerabilities, 0 of them in the last 12 months. 3 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.
CVEs26
Last 12 months0
Critical3
Actively exploited0
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Latest vulnerabilities
| CVE | Severity | EPSS | Active exploitation | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-23196 | High (8.8) | 1.3% | — | Jan 21, 2025 | A code injection vulnerability exists in the Ambari Alert Definition feature, allowing authenticated users to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands. The vulnerability arises when defining alert scripts, where the… |
| CVE-2025-23195 | High (7.5) | 0.75% | — | Jan 21, 2025 | An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability exists in the Ambari/Oozie project, allowing an attacker to inject malicious XML entities. This vulnerability occurs due to insecure parsing of XML input using the… |
| CVE-2024-51941 | High (8.8) | 1.4% | — | Jan 21, 2025 | A remote code injection vulnerability exists in the Ambari Metrics and AMS Alerts feature, allowing authenticated users to inject and execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability occurs when processing alert definitions,… |
| CVE-2023-50378 | Medium (6.1) | 1.2% | — | Mar 1, 2024 | Lack of proper input validation and constraint enforcement in Apache Ambari prior to 2.7.8 Impact : As it will be stored XSS, Could be exploited to perform unauthorized actions, varying from data access to session… |
| CVE-2023-50380 | Medium (6.5) | 0.86% | — | Feb 27, 2024 | XML External Entity injection in apache ambari versions <= 2.7.7, Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.7.8, which fixes this issue. More Details: Oozie Workflow Scheduler had a vulnerability that allowed for… |
| CVE-2023-50379 | High (8.8) | 1.1% | — | Feb 27, 2024 | Malicious code injection in Apache Ambari in prior to 2.7.8. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.7.8, which fixes this issue. Impact: A Cluster Operator can manipulate the request by adding a malicious code… |
| CVE-2022-45855 | High (8.8) | 1.2% | — | Jul 12, 2023 | SpringEL injection in the metrics source in Apache Ambari version 2.7.0 to 2.7.6 allows a malicious authenticated user to execute arbitrary code remotely. Users are recommended to upgrade to 2.7.7. |
| CVE-2022-42009 | High (8.8) | 1.2% | — | Jul 12, 2023 | SpringEL injection in the server agent in Apache Ambari version 2.7.0 to 2.7.6 allows a malicious authenticated user to execute arbitrary code remotely. Users are recommended to upgrade to 2.7.7. |
| CVE-2020-13924 | High (7.5) | 4.0% | — | Mar 17, 2021 | In Apache Ambari versions 2.6.2.2 and earlier, malicious users can construct file names for directory traversal and traverse to other directories to download files. |
| CVE-2020-1936 | Medium (6.1) | 2.9% | — | Mar 2, 2021 | A cross-site scripting issue was found in Apache Ambari Views. This was addressed in Apache Ambari 2.7.4. |
| CVE-2018-8042 | High (8.1) | 1.8% | — | Jul 18, 2018 | Apache Ambari, version 2.5.0 to 2.6.2, passwords for Hadoop credential stores are exposed in Ambari Agent informational log messages when the credential store feature is enabled for eligible services. For example, Hive… |
| CVE-2018-8003 | Medium (5.3) | 4.2% | — | May 3, 2018 | Apache Ambari, versions 1.4.0 to 2.6.1, is susceptible to a directory traversal attack allowing an unauthenticated user to craft an HTTP request which provides read-only access to any file on the filesystem of the host… |
| CVE-2017-5655 | Medium (6.5) | 2.1% | — | May 15, 2017 | In Ambari 2.2.2 through 2.4.2 and Ambari 2.5.0, sensitive data may be stored on disk in temporary files on the Ambari Server host. The temporary files are readable by any user authenticated on the host. |
| CVE-2017-5654 | High (7.5) | 2.2% | — | May 12, 2017 | In Ambari 2.4.x (before 2.4.3) and Ambari 2.5.0, an authorized user of the Ambari Hive View may be able to gain unauthorized read access to files on the host where the Ambari server executes. |
| CVE-2017-5642 | Critical (9.8) | 1.9% | — | Apr 3, 2017 | During installation of Ambari 2.4.0 through 2.4.2, Ambari Server artifacts are not created with proper ACLs. |
| CVE-2016-4976 | Medium (5.5) | 0.51% | — | Mar 29, 2017 | Apache Ambari 2.x before 2.4.0 includes KDC administrator passwords on the kadmin command line, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a process listing. |
| CVE-2014-3582 | Critical (9.8) | 1.6% | — | Mar 29, 2017 | In Ambari 1.2.0 through 2.2.2, it may be possible to execute arbitrary system commands on the Ambari Server host while generating SSL certificates for hosts in an Ambari cluster. |
| CVE-2016-6807 | Critical (9.8) | 2.4% | — | Mar 28, 2017 | Custom commands may be executed on Ambari Agent (2.4.x, before 2.4.2) hosts without authorization, leading to unauthorized access to operations that may affect the underlying system. Such operations are invoked by the… |
| CVE-2016-0731 | Medium (4.9) | 2.6% | — | May 18, 2016 | The File Browser View in Apache Ambari before 2.2.1 allows remote authenticated administrators to read arbitrary files via a file: URL in the WebHDFS URL configuration. |
| CVE-2016-0707 | Low (3.3) | 0.40% | — | May 18, 2016 | The agent in Apache Ambari before 2.1.2 uses weak permissions for the (1) /var/lib/ambari-agent/data and (2) /var/lib/ambari-agent/keys directories, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading… |
| CVE-2015-4940 | Low (2.1) | 0.66% | — | Nov 8, 2015 | Apache Ambari before 2.1, as used in IBM Infosphere BigInsights 4.x before 4.1, stores a cleartext BigSheets password in a configuration file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading this… |
| CVE-2015-4928 | Medium (4.3) | 2.8% | — | Nov 8, 2015 | Apache Ambari before 2.1, as used in IBM Infosphere BigInsights 4.x before 4.1, includes cleartext passwords on a Configs screen, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading… |
| CVE-2015-5210 | Medium (5.8) | 4.1% | — | Nov 2, 2015 | Open redirect vulnerability in Apache Ambari before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the targetURI parameter. |
| CVE-2015-3270 | Medium (6.5) | 2.7% | — | Nov 2, 2015 | Apache Ambari before 2.0.2 or 2.1.x before 2.1.1 allows remote authenticated users to gain administrative privileges via unspecified vectors, possibly related to changing passwords. |
| CVE-2015-3186 | Low (3.5) | 2.3% | — | Nov 2, 2015 | Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache Ambari before 2.1.0 allows remote authenticated cluster operator users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the note field in a configuration change. |
| CVE-2015-1775 | Medium (5.5) | 3.0% | — | Nov 2, 2015 | Server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the proxy endpoint (api/v1/proxy) in Apache Ambari before 2.1.0 allows remote authenticated users to conduct port scans and access unsecured services via a crafted… |
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