CVE-2017-9794
When a cluster is operating in secure mode, a user with read privileges for specific data regions can use the gfsh command line utility to…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 32% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
When a cluster is operating in secure mode, a user with read privileges for specific data regions can use the gfsh command line utility to execute queries. In Apache Geode before 1.2.1, the query results may contain data from another user's concurrently executing gfsh query, potentially revealing data that the user is not authorized to view.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Geode
- affected 1.0.0
- affected 1.1.0
- affected 1.1.1
- affected 1.2.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.geode:geode-coreGHSA-37m3-qp37-x3c6 (opens in a new tab)
References
1
- [geode-user] 20170929 [SECURITY] CVE-2017-9794 Apache Geode gfsh query vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-2127 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-37m3-qp37-x3c6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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