Medium
Security advisory
Vulnerability allows a user of Apache Oozie 3.1.3-incubating to 5.0.0 to impersonate other users. The malicious user can construct an XML that results workflows running in other user's name.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11799
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Vulnerability allows a user of Apache Oozie 3.1.3-incubating to 5.0.0 to impersonate other users. The malicious user can construct an XML that results workflows running in other user's name.
osv:CVE-2018-11799
Complete source record
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