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CVE-2017-9797 (GCVE-0-2017-9797)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-02 13:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:41
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Summary
When an Apache Geode cluster before v1.2.1 is operating in secure mode, an unauthenticated client can enter multi-user authentication mode and send metadata messages. These metadata operations could leak information about application data types. In addition, an attacker could perform a denial of service attack on the cluster.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Improper Access Control error
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/geode-us… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Geode Affected: 1.0.0
Affected: 1.1.0
Affected: 1.1.1
Affected: 1.2.0
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Date Public
2017-09-29 00:00
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