CVE-2016-5001
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…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.70%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 47% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.70% · top 47% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Hadoop
- affected 2.1.0 to 2.6.3
- affected 2.7.0 to 2.7.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.hadoop:hadoop-commonGHSA-8r28-r8cp-g6cp (opens in a new tab)
References
3
- 94950 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161216 [SECURITY] CVE-2016-5001: Apache Hadoop Information Disclosure (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [flink-user] 20210703 Re: owasp-dependency-check is flagging flink 1.13 for scala 2.12.7 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-3221 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8r28-r8cp-g6cp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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