Inadequate Verification of Extended Attribute Access in Apache Hadoop HDFS

CVE-2018-1296 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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 path-level read permission to the referent.

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