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Credentials Management Errors

CVE-2017-9799

Severity High
Score 8.8/10

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.

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

CWE-255 - Credentials Management Errors

Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of credentials.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published