Medium
Security advisory
Apache Ambari 2.x before 2.4.0 includes KDC administrator passwords on the kadmin command line, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a process listing.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-4976
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Apache Ambari 2.x before 2.4.0 includes KDC administrator passwords on the kadmin command line, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a process listing.
osv:CVE-2016-4976
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4976",
"method": "structured",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:20.355864392Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 430249,
"published_at": "2017-03-29T20:59:00.247+00:00"
}