CVE-2016-6811

highpriority · track · 36EPSS 0.026 · 85 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.62% (85th) EPSS

CVSS 9 · high

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

6 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

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.

cvss

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

9.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 10

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.18.8highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimaryCWE-264USCWE-277US

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

IBM InfoSphere Guardium 10.0-10.5all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:infosphere_guardium:10.0_-_10.5
IBM InfoSphere Information Serverall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:infosphere_information_server:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Hadoop2.2.0 → 2.7.3fstec_bduRU
apache hadoop2.2.0 → 2.7.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common2.0.0-alpha → 2.7.4osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.hadoop/hadoop-common

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-2751IBM InfoSphere Guardium: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2018-12-13csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM InfoSphere Guardium ausnutzen, um dadurch die Integrität, Vertraulichkeit und Verfügbarkeit zu gefährden.
GHSA-mf7c-35mq-75pjInsecure Inherited Permissions in Apache Hadoop2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
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.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-04-11modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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