🛡️ CVE-2012-2945 — hadoop-main

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-377 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Hadoop symlink vulnerability

Hadoop 1.0.3 contains a symlink vulnerability as a result of storing pid files in the shared /tmp directory by default.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2012-2945 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main (fixed in 1.0.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 23 April 2022 and last revised on 16 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
bugs.debian.org (Web)
github.com (Package)
seclists.org (Web)
security-tracker.debian.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-377
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-04-23
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-main — 1.0.4

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