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high 8.8

CVE-2017-9799 json

Apache Storm it is possible for the owner of a topology to trick the supervisor to launch a worker as a different, non-root, user

published 2017-08-09 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-x825-rjww-2245 , EUVD-2018-0712

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.9%
EPSS 4.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

It was found that under some situations and configurations of Apache Storm 1.x before 1.0.4 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1, it is theoretically possible for the owner of a topology to trick the supervisor to launch a worker as a different, non-root, user. In the worst case this could lead to secure credentials of the other user being compromised.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.storm:storm-core 1.0.4, 1.1.1
  • storm OpenStack Cloud 7 1.0.5-5.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:3000-1

Exploit prediction

4.87% 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:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.storm:storm-core
>=1.1.0, <1.1.1
>=1.0.0, <1.0.4
1.1.1
1.0.4

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Storm

References

Sources

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