CVE-2018-11764 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Apache Hadoop versions 3.0.0-alpha4, 3.0.0-beta1, and 3.0.0. This flaw allows authenticated users to impersonate any other user on the system, even without proxy user configurations, due to a broken authentication check in a web endpoint. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:3.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:3.0.0:alpha4:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:3.0.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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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