01 Record
CVE-2017-3161
The HDFS web UI in Apache Hadoop before 2.7.0 is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack through an unescaped query parameter.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: apache
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The HDFS web UI in Apache Hadoop before 2.7.0 is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack through an unescaped query parameter.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- 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
- 3.86% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
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.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-04-26 20:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 14:16Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-12-05
- Assigning CNA
- apache
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6b92fa030330335b175b5d952b9b0e7d101170c89107dab72c893255b662d721
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com98025http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98025
- s.apache.org[hadoop-common-dev] 20170425 CVE-2017-3161: Apache Hadoop NameNode XSS vulnerabilityhttps://s.apache.org/4MQm
- lists.apache.org[hadoop-user] 20200604 Re: CVE-2017-3161 & CVE-2017-3162 | WhiteSourcehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r127f75748fcabc63bc5a1bec6885753eb9b2bed803b6ed7bd46f965b%40%3Cuser.hadoop.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[flink-user] 20210703 Re: owasp-dependency-check is flagging flink 1.13 for scala 2.12.7https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r66de86b9a608c1da70b2d27d765c11ec88edf6e5dd6f379ab33e072a%40%3Cuser.flink.apache.org%3E