CVE-2016-9885

moderate-risk

Published 2017-01-06

An issue was discovered in Pivotal GemFire for PCF 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.5 and 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.1. The gfsh (Geode Shell) endpoint, used by operators and application developers to connect to their cluster, is unauthenticated and publicly accessible. Because HTTPS communications are terminated at the gorouter, communications from the gorouter to GemFire clusters are unencrypted. An attacker could run any command available on gfsh and could cause denial of service, lost confidentiality of data, escalate privileges, or eavesdrop on other communications between the gorouter and the cluster.

Do I need to act?

0.54% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 9.8/10 Critical

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Gemfire For Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Affected Vendors

Pivotal Software

References (4)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95270

Vendor Advisory https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-9885

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95270

Vendor Advisory https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-9885

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moderate-risk

Severity 32/34 · Critical

Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal

Exposure 13/34 · Low