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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2018-8009 json

Path Traversal in Hadoop

published 2018-11-13 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-6x48-j4x4-cqw3 , EUVD-2018-0799

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.7%
EPSS 6.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Apache Hadoop 3.1.0, 3.0.0-alpha to 3.0.2, 2.9.0 to 2.9.1, 2.8.0 to 2.8.4, 2.0.0-alpha to 2.7.6, 0.23.0 to 0.23.11 is exploitable via the zip slip vulnerability in places that accept a zip file.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main 2.7.7, 2.8.5, 2.9.2, 3.0.3, 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-2018-8009 updated cvss 6.3

hadoop: arbitrary file write vulnerability / arbitrary code execution using a specially crafted zip file

  • Red Hat Fuse 7.5.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:3892
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 camel 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

6.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
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
>=3.1.0, <3.1.1
>=3.0.0, <3.0.3
>=2.9.0, <2.9.2
>=2.8.0, <2.8.5
<2.7.7
3.1.1
3.0.3
2.9.2
2.8.5
2.7.7

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Hadoop

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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