CVE-2017-5637
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.5
Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache ZooKeeper
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Zookeeper 3.5.2 Client - Denial of Service
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
OS impact
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.4.9-3 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.4.9-3 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.4.9-3 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.4.9-3 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.4.9-3 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper | >=3.4.0,<3.4.10 | 3.4.10 |
| Maven | org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper | >=3.5.0,<3.5.3 | 3.5.3 |
Application impact
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3871
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98814
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2477
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3354
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3355
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2693
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/053d9ce4d579b02203db18545fee5e33f35f2932885459b74d1e4272%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/58170aeb7a681d462b7fa31cae81110cbb749d2dc83c5736a0bb8370%40%3Cdev.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/bcce5a9c532b386c68dab2f6b3ce8b0cc9b950ec551766e76391caa3%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rca37935d661f4689cb4119f1b3b224413b22be161b678e6e6ce0c69b%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5637
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/053d9ce4d579b02203db18545fee5e33f35f2932885459b74d1e4272@%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/58170aeb7a681d462b7fa31cae81110cbb749d2dc83c5736a0bb8370@%3Cdev.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/bcce5a9c532b386c68dab2f6b3ce8b0cc9b950ec551766e76391caa3@%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rca37935d661f4689cb4119f1b3b224413b22be161b678e6e6ce0c69b@%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5637
CWEs
CWE-306 CWE-400
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.