CVE-2017-15713: Apache Hadoop

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vulnerability in Apache Hadoop 0.23.x, 2.x before 2.7.5, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, and 3.0.0-alpha through 3.0.0-beta1 allows a cluster user to expose private files owned by the user running the MapReduce job history server process. The malicious user can construct a configuration file containing XML directives that reference sensitive files on the MapReduce job history server host.

Affected products

• Apache Hadoop: from 0.23.0, up to and including 0.23.11; from 2.2.0, up to and including 2.8.2; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; …

Published 2018-01-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.