High severity · published Jun 13, 2017
CVE-2017-4961
An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry Foundation BOSH Release 261.x versions prior to 261.3 and all 260.x versions
8.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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."
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 41% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BO
Bosh · Cloud Foundry
260; 260.1; 260.2; 260.3; 260.4; 260.5; +5 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-4961
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-4961
Vendor Advisory
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2017-4961/
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