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Fencer Vulns
high 7.3

CVE-2017-3162 json

Improper Input Validation in Apache Hadoop

published 2017-04-26 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-pr9x-qmp5-j3rr , EUVD-2022-4816

cvss
7.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.4%
EPSS 6.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

HDFS clients interact with a servlet on the DataNode to browse the HDFS namespace. The NameNode is provided as a query parameter that is not validated in Apache Hadoop before 2.7.0.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client 2.7.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-3162 updated

hadoop: Multiple vulnerabilities

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client
<2.7.0
2.7.0

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Hadoop

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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