CVE-2017-4961

Published: Jun 13, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

8.8

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

Description

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."

Affected (11)

Products: Cloud Foundry: Bosh

Cloud Foundry

1 product

Bosh

Configuration A

11 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Cloud Foundry Bosh	Version 260.1
Cloud Foundry Bosh	Version 260.2
Cloud Foundry Bosh	Version 260.3
Cloud Foundry Bosh	Version 260.4
Cloud Foundry Bosh	Version 260.5
Cloud Foundry Bosh	Version 260.6
Cloud Foundry Bosh	Version 260.7
Cloud Foundry Bosh	Version 260
Cloud Foundry Bosh	Version 261.1
Cloud Foundry Bosh	Version 261.2
Cloud Foundry Bosh	Version 261

Related CWEs

CWE-354

Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value

The product 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.

References (2)

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2017-4961/

Source: security_alert@emc.com

Vendor Advisory

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2017-4961/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

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