CVE-2017-9799

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-09 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Storm: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.1

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100235
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039116
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b9125bf507ed6f2ca6e85ba1a4b44e232aa70eeddfba2a9d8a954127%40%3Cdev.storm.apache.org%3E
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100235
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039116
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b9125bf507ed6f2ca6e85ba1a4b44e232aa70eeddfba2a9d8a954127%40%3Cdev.storm.apache.org%3E

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