CVE-2017-15536

CVE-2017-15536 describes multiple web application vulnerabilities in Cloudera Data Science Workbench (CDSW) 1.x before 1.2.0. Authenticated users can exploit these flaws to escalate privileges, ultimately gaining root access to CDSW nodes, accessing sensitive database information including Kerberos keytabs and hashed passwords, and retrieving other privileged data. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and requires only low privileges, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.