CVE-2016-6811: Insecure Inherited Permissions in Apache Hadoop

May 14, 2022 (updated July 6, 2022)

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-mf7c-35mq-75pj
lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd5b2cae60909e48f92608e00c8d99196390b8cfeca307@%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6811

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