🛡️ CVE-2023-50380
🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-611 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

XML External Entity injection in apache ambari versions <= 2.7.7, Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.7.8, which fixes this issue. More Details: Oozie Workflow Scheduler had a vulnerability that allowed for root-level file reading and privilege escalation from low-privilege users. The vulnerability was caused through lack of proper user input validation. This vulnerability is known as an XML External Entity (XXE) injection attack. Attackers can exploit XXE vulnerabilities to read arbitrary files on the server, including sensitive system files. In theory, it might be possible to use this to escalate privileges.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-611
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-02-27
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-03-27
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ambari 2.7.0 2.7.8
org.apache.ambari.contrib.views:wfmanager 2.7.0 2.7.8

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