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Fencer Intel
high 8.8

CVE-2017-15103 json

Heketi Arbitrary Code Execution

published 2017-12-18 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-6g56-v9qg-jp92 , GO-2024-2763 , EUVD-2024-1124

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.5%
EPSS 5.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A security-check flaw was found in the way the Heketi 5 server API handled user requests. An authenticated Heketi user could send specially crafted requests to the Heketi server, resulting in remote command execution as the user running Heketi server and possibly privilege escalation.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/heketi/heketi 5.0.1, 5.0.1+incompatible
  • heketi storage 3.3 5.0.0-19.el7rhgs
  • heketi-client storage 3.3 5.0.0-19.el7rhgs
  • python-heketi storage 3.3 5.0.0-19.el7rhgs

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:3481

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-15103 updated cvss 8.8

heketi: OS command injection in heketi API

  • Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.3 on RHEL-7 heketi 5.0.0-19.el7rhgs, heketi-client 5.0.0-19.el7rhgs, python-heketi 5.0.0-19.el7rhgs
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3481

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/heketi/heketi
<5.0.1
<5.0.1+incompatible
5.0.1
5.0.1+incompatible

Affected products

  • Heketi Heketi

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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