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Apache Hadoop: vulnerabilities and CVEs
Apache Hadoop has 37 published vulnerabilities, 1 of them in the last 12 months. 7 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.
CVEs37
Last 12 months1
Critical7
Actively exploited0
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| CVE | Severity | EPSS | Active exploitation | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-27821 | High (7.3) | 0.96% | — | Jan 26, 2026 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Apache Hadoop HDFS native client. This issue affects Apache Hadoop: from 3.2.0 before 3.4.2. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.4.2, which fixes the issue. |
| CVE-2024-23454 | Medium (6.2) | 0.41% | — | Sep 25, 2024 | Apache Hadoop’s RunJar.run() does not set permissions for temporary directory by default. If sensitive data will be present in this file, all the other local users may be able to view the content. This is because, on… |
| CVE-2023-26031 | High (7.5) | 2.1% | — | Nov 16, 2023 | Relative library resolution in linux container-executor binary in Apache Hadoop 3.3.1-3.3.4 on Linux allows local user to gain root privileges. If the YARN cluster is accepting work from remote (authenticated) users,… |
| CVE-2021-25642 | High (8.8) | 2.2% | — | Aug 25, 2022 | ZKConfigurationStore which is optionally used by CapacityScheduler of Apache Hadoop YARN deserializes data obtained from ZooKeeper without validation. An attacker having access to ZooKeeper can run arbitrary commands as… |
| CVE-2022-25168 | Critical (9.8) | 4.5% | — | Aug 4, 2022 | Apache Hadoop's FileUtil.unTar(File, File) API does not escape the input file name before being passed to the shell. An attacker can inject arbitrary commands. This is only used in Hadoop 3.3… |
| CVE-2021-33036 | High (8.8) | 3.9% | — | Jun 15, 2022 | In Apache Hadoop 2.2.0 to 2.10.1, 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.1.4, 3.2.0 to 3.2.2, and 3.3.0 to 3.3.1, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user. Users should upgrade to Apache Hadoop… |
| CVE-2021-37404 | Critical (9.8) | 2.9% | — | Jun 13, 2022 | There is a potential heap buffer overflow in Apache Hadoop libhdfs native code. Opening a file path provided by user without validation may result in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. Users should upgrade… |
| CVE-2022-26612 | Critical (9.8) | 4.2% | — | Apr 7, 2022 | In Apache Hadoop, The unTar function uses unTarUsingJava function on Windows and the built-in tar utility on Unix and other OSes. As a result, a TAR entry may create a symlink under the expected extraction directory… |
| CVE-2020-9492 | High (8.8) | 4.4% | — | Jan 26, 2021 | In Apache Hadoop 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.1.3, and 2.0.0-alpha to 2.10.0, WebHDFS client might send SPNEGO authorization header to remote URL without proper verification. |
| CVE-2018-11764 | High (8.8) | 2.4% | — | Oct 21, 2020 | Web endpoint authentication check is broken in Apache Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha4, 3.0.0-beta1, and 3.0.0. Authenticated users may impersonate any user even if no proxy user is configured. |
| CVE-2018-11765 | High (7.5) | 5.2% | — | Sep 30, 2020 | In Apache Hadoop versions 3.0.0-alpha2 to 3.0.0, 2.9.0 to 2.9.2, 2.8.0 to 2.8.5, any users can access some servlets without authentication when Kerberos authentication is enabled and SPNEGO through HTTP is not enabled. |
| CVE-2012-2945 | High (7.5) | 2.7% | — | Oct 29, 2019 | Hadoop 1.0.3 contains a symlink vulnerability. |
| CVE-2019-17195 | Critical (9.8) | 11% | — | Oct 15, 2019 | Connect2id Nimbus JOSE+JWT before v7.9 can throw various uncaught exceptions while parsing a JWT, which could result in an application crash (potential information disclosure) or a potential authentication bypass. |
| CVE-2018-11768 | High (7.5) | 6.6% | — | Oct 4, 2019 | In Apache Hadoop 3.1.0 to 3.1.1, 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.0.3, 2.9.0 to 2.9.1, and 2.0.0-alpha to 2.8.4, the user/group information can be corrupted across storing in fsimage and reading back from fsimage. |
| CVE-2018-8029 | High (8.8) | 3.9% | — | May 30, 2019 | In Apache Hadoop versions 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.1.0, 2.9.0 to 2.9.1, and 2.2.0 to 2.8.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user. |
| CVE-2018-11767 | High (7.4) | 3.7% | — | Mar 21, 2019 | In Apache Hadoop 2.9.0 to 2.9.1, 2.8.3 to 2.8.4, 2.7.5 to 2.7.6, KMS blocking users or granting access to users incorrectly, if the system uses non-default groups mapping mechanisms. |
| CVE-2018-1296 | High (7.5) | 3.3% | — | Feb 7, 2019 | 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… |
| CVE-2018-11766 | High (8.8) | 3.2% | — | Nov 27, 2018 | In Apache Hadoop 2.7.4 to 2.7.6, the security fix for CVE-2016-6811 is incomplete. A user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user. |
| CVE-2018-8009 | High (8.8) | 6.7% | — | Nov 13, 2018 | Apache Hadoop 3.1.0, 3.0.0-alpha to 3.0.2, 2.9.0 to 2.9.1, 2.8.0 to 2.8.4, 2.0.0-alpha to 2.7.6, 0.23.0 to 0.23.11 is exploitable via the zip slip vulnerability in places that accept a zip file. |
| CVE-2017-15718 | Critical (9.8) | 3.6% | — | Jan 24, 2018 | The YARN NodeManager in Apache Hadoop 2.7.3 and 2.7.4 can leak the password for credential store provider used by the NodeManager to YARN Applications. |
| CVE-2017-15713 | Medium (6.5) | 2.2% | — | Jan 19, 2018 | Vulnerability in Apache Hadoop 0.23.x, 2.x before 2.7.5, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, and 3.0.0-alpha through 3.0.0-beta1 allows a cluster user to expose private files owned by the user running the MapReduce job history server… |
| CVE-2017-3166 | High (7.8) | 0.32% | — | Nov 13, 2017 | In Apache Hadoop versions 2.6.1 to 2.6.5, 2.7.0 to 2.7.3, and 3.0.0-alpha1, if a file in an encryption zone with access permissions that make it world readable is localized via YARN's localization mechanism, that file… |
| CVE-2012-4449 | Critical (9.8) | 1.2% | — | Oct 30, 2017 | Apache Hadoop before 0.23.4, 1.x before 1.0.4, and 2.x before 2.0.2 generate token passwords using a 20-bit secret when Kerberos security features are enabled, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to… |
| CVE-2016-3086 | Critical (9.8) | 3.6% | — | Sep 5, 2017 | The YARN NodeManager in Apache Hadoop 2.6.x before 2.6.5 and 2.7.x before 2.7.3 can leak the password for credential store provider used by the NodeManager to YARN Applications. |
| CVE-2016-5001 | Medium (5.5) | 0.69% | — | Aug 30, 2017 | 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… |
| CVE-2017-7669 | High (7.5) | 1.8% | — | Jun 5, 2017 | In Apache Hadoop 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha1, and 3.0.0-alpha2, the LinuxContainerExecutor runs docker commands as root with insufficient input validation. When the docker feature is enabled, authenticated users can run… |
| CVE-2017-3162 | High (7.3) | 6.3% | — | Apr 26, 2017 | HDFS clients interact with a servlet on the DataNode to browse the HDFS namespace. The NameNode is provided as a query parameter that is not validated in Apache Hadoop before 2.7.0. |
| CVE-2017-3161 | Medium (6.1) | 3.9% | — | Apr 26, 2017 | The HDFS web UI in Apache Hadoop before 2.7.0 is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack through an unescaped query parameter. |
| CVE-2016-6811 | High (8.8) | 2.6% | — | Apr 11, 2017 | 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. |
| CVE-2014-0229 | Medium (6.5) | 1.6% | — | Mar 23, 2017 | Apache Hadoop 0.23.x before 0.23.11 and 2.x before 2.4.1, as used in Cloudera CDH 5.0.x before 5.0.2, do not check authorization for the (1) refreshNamenodes, (2) deleteBlockPool, and (3) shutdownDatanode HDFS admin… |
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