PT-2017-8626 · Cloudera · Cloudera Hue

Published 2017-03-07 · Updated 2017-03-09 · CVE-2016-4946

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cloudera HUE versions 3.9.0 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the First name or Last name field in the HUE Users page, potentially leading to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Recommendations For Cloudera HUE versions 3.9.0 and earlier, update to a version later than 3.9.0 to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-4946

Affected Products

Cloudera Hue

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4946 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4946 · Security Note
• http://2016.hack.lu/archive/2016/Wavestone%20-%20Hack.lu%202016%20-%20Hadoop%20safari%20-%20Hunting%20for%20vulnerabilities%20-%20v1.0.pdf · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/93881 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4946 · Note