National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1574
Original release date:04/12/2012
Last revised:12/06/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The Kerberos/MapReduce security functionality in Apache Hadoop 0.20.203.0 through 0.20.205.0, 0.23.x before 0.23.2, and 1.0.x before 1.0.2, as used in Cloudera CDH CDH3u0 through CDH3u2, Cloudera hadoop-0.20-sbin before 0.20.2+923.197, and other products, allows remote authenticated users to impersonate arbitrary cluster user accounts via unspecified vectors.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/DOC/Cloudera+Security+Bulletin
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 52939
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 48776
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 48775
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20120405 [CVE-2012-1574] Apache Hadoop user impersonation vulnerability
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20120405 [CVE-2012-1574] Apache Hadoop user impersonation vulnerability