CVE-2018-1296: Apache Hadoop

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Apache Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.0.0, 2.9.0, 2.8.0 to 2.8.3, and 2.5.0 to 2.7.5, HDFS exposes extended attribute key/value pairs during listXAttrs, verifying only path-level search access to the directory rather than path-level read permission to the referent.

Affected products

• Apache Hadoop: from 2.5.0, up to and including 2.7.5; version 2.8.0 only; version 2.8.1 only; version 2.8.2 only; version 2.8.3 only; version 2.9.0 only; …

Published 2019-02-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.