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Vulnerability details: VCID-gkgb-fysw-zkac
Vulnerability ID VCID-gkgb-fysw-zkac
Aliases CVE-2018-11766
GHSA-rqj9-cq6j-958r
Summary Arbitrary Command Execution in Hadoop In Apache Hadoop 2.7.4 to 2.7.6, the security fix for CVE-2016-6811 is incomplete. A user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.1
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-268 Privilege Chaining
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3 7.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-11766.json
epss 0.00712 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-11766
epss 0.00712 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-11766
cvssv3 7.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqj9-cq6j-958r
cvssv3.1_qr HIGH https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqj9-cq6j-958r
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqj9-cq6j-958r
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff37bbbe09d5f03090e2dd2c3dea95de16ef4249e731f19b8959ce4c@%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
generic_textual HIGH https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff37bbbe09d5f03090e2dd2c3dea95de16ef4249e731f19b8959ce4c@%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
cvssv2 9.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11766
cvssv3 8.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11766
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11766
generic_textual HIGH https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11766
cvssv3.1 8.8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106035
generic_textual HIGH http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106035
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-11766.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-11766
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqj9-cq6j-958r
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff37bbbe09d5f03090e2dd2c3dea95de16ef4249e731f19b8959ce4c@%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff37bbbe09d5f03090e2dd2c3dea95de16ef4249e731f19b8959ce4c%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11766
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106035
1654239 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1654239
cpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:apache:hadoop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2018-11766.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rqj9-cq6j-958r
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff37bbbe09d5f03090e2dd2c3dea95de16ef4249e731f19b8959ce4c@%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3E
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11766
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11766
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11766
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106035
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.71289
EPSS Score 0.00712
Published At June 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-01T12:21:14.208278+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/12/GHSA-rqj9-cq6j-958r/GHSA-rqj9-cq6j-958r.json 36.1.3