What is CVE-2016-4947?

CVE-2016-4947 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cloudera Hue, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2017-03-07.

How severe is CVE-2016-4947?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Cloudera Hue

CVE-2016-4947

Cloudera HUE 3.9.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to enumerate user accounts via a request to desktop/api/users/autocomplete.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2017-03-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (68.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 68.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Cloudera Hue

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

2016.hack.lu/archive/2016/Wavestone - Hack.lu 2016 - Hadoop safari - Hunting fo… (Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/93880 (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-4947?: CVE-2016-4947 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cloudera Hue, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2017-03-07.
How severe is CVE-2016-4947?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.