CVE-2017-9796

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

When an Apache Geode cluster before v1.3.0 is operating in secure mode, a user with read access to specific regions within a Geode cluster may execute OQL queries containing a region name as a bind parameter that allow read access to objects within unauthorized regions.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Geode: before 1.3.0 — fixed in 1.3.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Geode 1.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e580d22195b6b61ff9cf866ac6dd6fe16e790ff0e14a3b1a22cd20b1%40%3Cuser.geode.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e580d22195b6b61ff9cf866ac6dd6fe16e790ff0e14a3b1a22cd20b1%40%3Cuser.geode.apache.org%3E

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