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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

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Updated: 2024-09-16T19:51:02.745Z

Reserved: 2016-05-24T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5001

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-30T19:29:00.147

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-5001

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