🛡️ CVE-2016-6807 — ambari

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache Ambari Improper Access Control

Custom commands may be executed on Ambari Agent (2.4.x, before 2.4.2) hosts without authorization, leading to unauthorized access to operations that may affect the underlying system. Such operations are invoked by the Ambari Agent process on Ambari Agent hosts, as the user executing the Ambari Agent process.

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-2016-6807 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2016-6807 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.apache.ambari:ambari (from 2.4.0 up to 2.4.2)

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)
cwiki.apache.org (Web)
github.com (Package)
web.archive.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-284
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.ambari:ambari 2.4.0 2.4.2

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