🛡️ CVE-2012-4449 — hadoop-client

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-327 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in Apache Hadoop

Apache Hadoop before 0.23.4, 1.x before 1.0.4, and 2.x before 2.0.2 generate token passwords using a 20-bit secret when Kerberos security features are enabled, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to crack secret keys via a brute-force attack.

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 high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2012-4449 is classified as CWE-327: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. An algorithm with known weaknesses is used, so the protection it appears to give does not hold.

Affected software

CVE-2012-4449 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client (from 2.0.0 up to 2.0.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
www.cloudera.com (Web)
mail-archives.apache.org (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-327
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client 2.0.0 2.0.2

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