TCP 50070
Synopsis
- TCP 50070 is the default HTTP service for the Apache Hadoop HDFS NameNode in Hadoop 1.x/2.x, providing the NameNode web UI and the WebHDFS REST API.
- Popular distributions such as Cloudera CDH 5.x and Hortonworks HDP 2.x use 50070 for the NameNode UI (e.g., http://namenode:50070/).
- Tools and clients interact with WebHDFS on this port (for example, curl requests to /webhdfs/v1/... for file operations).
- In Hadoop 3.x the default moved to 9870, but many existing deployments still run the service on 50070.
- Security note: exposed 50070 services have been abused in the wild for data theft, ransomware, and cryptojacking against misconfigured Hadoop clusters, with multiple campaigns reported since 2017 targeting publicly reachable HDFS NameNodes.
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