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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2018-8029 json

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Apache Hadoop

published 2019-05-30 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-37pw-qw47-4jxm , EUVD-2019-0447

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.9%
EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main 2.8.4, 2.9.2, 3.1.1

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-2018-8029 updated cvss 8.8

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

  • Red Hat Fuse 7 hadoop-core hadoop-core Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 hadoop-core hadoop-core Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 hadoop-core hadoop-core Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 hadoop-core hadoop-core Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-metering-hadoop Red Hat Satellite 5 nutch, spacewalk-search
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Storage 3 rhs-hadoop
    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

3.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main
>=2.2.0, <2.8.4
>=2.9.0, <2.9.2
>=3.0.0, <3.1.1
2.8.4
2.9.2
3.1.1

Affected products

  • n/a Apache Hadoop

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.