CVE-2016-6811: Apache Hadoop

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

Affected products

• Apache Hadoop: from 2.2.0, up to and including 2.7.3

Published 2017-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.