CVE-2012-2945

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.027 · 86 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.67% (86th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Hadoop 1.0.3 contains a symlink vulnerability.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59USprimaryCWE-377USCWE-59US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
apache hadoop= 1.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main< 1.0.4osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-main

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-v5c9-98f7-2h54Hadoop symlink vulnerability2022-04-23ghsa · osvUS
Hadoop 1.0.3 contains a symlink vulnerability as a result of storing pid files in the shared `/tmp` directory by default.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-10-29modified 2026-06-16

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references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://hadoop.apache.orgPatchcnnvd
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2945 cnnvd
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Jul/3 cnnvd
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2945 cnnvd
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Jul/3 enisa_euvd
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2945 enisa_euvd
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Jul/3ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisorynvd
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2945Third Party Advisorynvd

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