CVE-2017-9797
When an Apache Geode cluster before v1.2.1 is operating in secure mode, an unauthenticated client can enter multi-user authentication mode…
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Description
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.
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 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Improper Access Control error
- CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
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-vh98-fqfc-4hj3 (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- [geode-user] 20170929 [SECURITY] CVE-2017-9797 Apache Geode client/server authentication 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)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-vh98-fqfc-4hj3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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