VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9885

critical
Published 2017-01-06 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

An issue was discovered in Pivotal GemFire for PCF 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.5 and 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.1. The gfsh (Geode Shell) endpoint, used by operators and application developers to connect to their cluster, is unauthenticated and publicly accessible. Because HTTPS communications are terminated at the gorouter, communications from the gorouter to GemFire clusters are unencrypted. An attacker could run any command available on gfsh and could cause denial of service, lost confidentiality of data, escalate privileges, or eavesdrop on other communications between the gorouter and the cluster.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
pivotal_softwaregemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry1.6.0.0
pivotal_softwaregemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry1.6.1
pivotal_softwaregemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry1.6.2
pivotal_softwaregemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry1.6.3.0
pivotal_softwaregemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry1.6.4.0
pivotal_softwaregemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry1.7.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-200 CWE-254

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.