Sensitive Information Exposure in Apache Hadoop 2.6.x Intermediate Data Encryption

CVE-2015-1776 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Apache Hadoop 2.6.x 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.

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