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CVE-2018-8029

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-8029 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Apache Hadoop versions 3.0.0-alpha1 to 3.1.0, 2.9.0 to 2.9.1, and 2.2.0 to 2.8.4. An attacker with yarn user privileges can execute arbitrary commands as the root user. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a significant risk of complete compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Despite its severity, there is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.2.0, <= 2.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0.1, <= 3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:2.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:2.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:3.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0398 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-mainFixed in: 2.8.4
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-mainFixed in: 2.9.2
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-mainFixed in: 3.1.1

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-37pw-qw47-4jxmhigh

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Apache Hadoop

May 31, 2019
redhatCVE-2018-8029Moderate

hadoop: a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user

May 30, 2019

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/0b8d58e02dbd0fb8bf7320c514fe58da1d6728bdc150f1ba04e0d9fc%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/17084c09e6dedf60efe08028b429c92ffd28aacc28454e4fa924578a%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/a0164b87660223a2d491f83c88f905fe1a9fa8dc795148d9b0d968c8%40%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/a97c53a81e639ca2fc7b8f61a4fcd1842c2a78544041244a7c624727%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r4dddf1705dbedfa94392913b2dad1cd2d1d89040facd389eea0b3510%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rb21df54a4e39732ce653d2aa5672e36a792b59eb6717f2a06bb8d02a%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20190617-0001
securityfocus.com / bid/108518