PT-2017-8627 · Cloudera · Cloudera Hue

Published 2017-03-07 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2016-4947

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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 enumerate user accounts via a request to "desktop/api/users/autocomplete". This enables attackers to gather information about existing user accounts.

Recommendations For Cloudera HUE versions 3.9.0 and earlier, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "desktop/api/users/autocomplete" endpoint until a patch is available.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-4947

GHSA-RXFP-8JMR-XC95

Affected Products

Cloudera Hue

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4947 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4947 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-rxfp-8jmr-xc95 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/cloudera/hue · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20210123183622/http://securityfocus.com/bid/93880 · 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/93880 · Note