{"id":"CVE-2017-9799","details":"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.","aliases":["GHSA-x825-rjww-2245"],"modified":"2026-07-08T17:17:04.084116Z","published":"2017-08-09T21:29:01.633Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2017:3000-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b9125bf507ed6f2ca6e85ba1a4b44e232aa70eeddfba2a9d8a954127%40%3Cdev.storm.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100235"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039116"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/apache/storm","events":[{"introduced":"dba655a47aaad74f26b9bb9a75fa52c0eedd8b1e"},{"last_affected":"e40d213de7067f7d3aa4d4992b81890d8ed6ff31"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":["cpe:2.3:a:apache:storm:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:apache:storm:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:apache:storm:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:apache:storm:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:apache:storm:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.0"},{"last_affected":"1.0"},{"introduced":"1.0.1"},{"last_affected":"1.0.1"},{"introduced":"1.0.2"},{"last_affected":"1.0.2"},{"introduced":"1.0.3"},{"last_affected":"1.0.3"},{"introduced":"1.1"},{"last_affected":"1.1"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["1.0","1.0.1","1.0.2","1.0.3","1.1","v1.1.0","v1.0.1","v1.0.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9799.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}