CVE-2017-9799
high
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.8
Description
Apache Storm it is possible for the owner of a topology to trick the supervisor to launch a worker as a different, non-root, user
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
92%
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.storm:storm-core | >=1.1.0,<1.1.1 | 1.1.1 |
| Maven | org.apache.storm:storm-core | >=1.0.0,<1.0.4 | 1.0.4 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100235
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039116
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b9125bf507ed6f2ca6e85ba1a4b44e232aa70eeddfba2a9d8a954127%40%3Cdev.storm.apache.org%3E
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9799.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9799
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x825-rjww-2245
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b9125bf507ed6f2ca6e85ba1a4b44e232aa70eeddfba2a9d8a954127@%3Cdev.storm.apache.org%3E
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.