CVE-2016-9885 (GCVE-0-2016-9885)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-06 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:07
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • gfsh exposed over go router for GemFire for PCF
Assigner
dell CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 70/100 over 538 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-9885 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a GemFire for PCF 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.5 and 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.1 Affected: GemFire for PCF 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.5 and 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.1
Date Public
2017-01-06 00:00
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