Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-15713
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:31 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-15713
Complete source record
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