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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2015-1776

Medium
6.2/10

Summary

Apache Hadoop 2.6.0 through 2.7.0 encrypts intermediate data generated by a MapReduce job and stores it along with the Encryption Key in a Credentials File on disk when the Intermediate Data Encryption Feature is "enabled", which allows Local Users to obtain Sensitive Information by reading the file.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published