CVE-2015-7831 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Cloudera Hue when used with CDH 5.x versions prior to 5.4.9, allowing a read-only user to gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a critical risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.0.0, < 5.4.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cloudera:cdh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.