CVE-2016-6811

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

2.62% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 84.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-04-11 14:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-09-16 23:25Z1 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-08-12

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-264
• CWE-268Privilege ChainingBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

fdfd574bdd69bb05e9558c89e70d44abf8f667b281486c5936c7d80c32cb6aa6

• lists.apache.org[general] 20180501 CVE-2016-6811: Apache Hadoop Privilege escalation vulnerabilityhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ba3c12bbdfd5b2cae60909e48f92608e00c8d99196390b8cfeca307%40%3Cgeneral.hadoop.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST