Security advisory

{
  "id": "193e9eae929d49c6cea508dcff9d3d696304baa295411919305c559738656863",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6811",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-6811",
    "summary": "In Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-6811",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-6811",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-6811",
        "GHSA-mf7c-35mq-75pj"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/hadoop",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "c40e9eb30aa4bf8f3c3eb7c139a06c665417b8c6"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "baa91f7c6bc9cb92be5982de4719c1c8af91ccff"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.2.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.7.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6811.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:17.624500669Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd5b2cae60909e48f92608e00c8d99196390b8cfeca307%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-6811",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429602,
  "published_at": "2017-04-11T14:59:00.193+00:00"
}