In Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary     commands as root user. (CVE-2016-6811)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - In Apache Hadoop 2.x before 2.7.4, a user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary
    commands as root user. (CVE-2016-6811)

Security fix for CVE-2018-8009

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Version update to 2.7.6. Fixes many open CVEs and bugs.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
220005	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-6811	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
416918	SCA: security update for org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common (GHSA-mf7c-35mq-75pj)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
416918	SCA: security update for org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common (GHSA-mf7c-35mq-75pj)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
120865	Fedora 28 : hadoop (2018-e5a8b72d0d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2016-6811

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

critical