Custom commands may be executed on Ambari Agent (2.4.x, before 2.4.2) hosts without authorization, leading to unauthorized access to operations that may affect the underlying system. Such operations are invoked by the Ambari Agent process on Ambari Agent hosts, as the user executing the Ambari Agent process.

Affected Packages

Maven org.apache.ambari:ambari

Affected versions: 2.4.0 (fixed in 2.4.2)

Related CVEs

CVE-2016-6807

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-j76q-99x2-v7vq

Published

May 17, 2022 2:51 AM

Last Modified

November 7, 2023 5:56 PM

CVSS Score

9.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Maven

Primary Package

org.apache.ambari:ambari

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: November 25, 2025 6:29 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.