In Apache Hadoop 2.7.4 to 2.7.6, the security fix for CVE-2016-6811 is incomplete. A user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

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

  - In Apache Hadoop 2.7.4 to 2.7.6, the security fix for CVE-2016-6811 is incomplete. A user who can escalate
    to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user. (CVE-2018-11766)

Bug fix and upgrade to version 2.7.7

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	Severity
421975	SCA: security update for org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main (GHSA-rqj9-cq6j-958r)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
421975	SCA: security update for org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main (GHSA-rqj9-cq6j-958r)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
120899	Fedora 28 : hadoop (2018-f1f44e4c6d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
120755	Fedora 29 : hadoop (2018-beec9e3fda)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2018-11766

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

high