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CVE-2017-3162
HDFS clients interact with a servlet on the DataNode to browse the HDFS namespace. The NameNode is provided as a query parameter that is…
- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 6.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
HDFS clients interact with a servlet on the DataNode to browse the HDFS namespace. The NameNode is provided as a query parameter that is not validated in Apache Hadoop before 2.7.0.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 5 months later
· 5 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 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.4% · top 6.2% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Hadoop
- affected 2.6.x and earlier
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.hadoop:hadoop-clientGHSA-pr9x-qmp5-j3rr (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- 98017 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [hadoop-common-dev] 20170425 CVE-2017-3162: Apache Hadoop DataNode web UI vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [hadoop-user] 20200604 Re: CVE-2017-3161 & CVE-2017-3162 | WhiteSource (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-2022-4816 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-pr9x-qmp5-j3rr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-3162)Record last updated .