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Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value

CVE-2017-4961

High
8.8/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry Foundation BOSH Release 261.x versions prior to 261.3 and all 260.x versions. In certain cases an authenticated Director user can provide a malicious checksum that could allow them to escalate their privileges on the Director VM, aka "BOSH Director Shell Injection Vulnerabilities."

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-354 - Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value

The software does not validate or incorrectly validates the integrity check values or "checksums" of a message. This may prevent it from detecting if the data has been modified or corrupted in transmission.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published