CVE-2017-7999 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-7999?

CVE-2017-7999 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Jun 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Atlassian Eucalyptus before 4.4.1, when in EDGE mode, allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to cause a denial of service (E2 service outage) via unspecified vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-7999?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Eucalyptus Eucalyptus.

How do I fix CVE-2017-7999?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-7999 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-7999 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7999 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2013-4767 Unspecified vulnerability in Eucalyptus before 3.3.2 has unknown impact and attack vectors. Critical 10.0
• CVE-2016-8520 Missing authorization in Helion Eucalyptus High 8.8
• CVE-2016-8528 Privilege escalation in Helion Eucalyptus High 8.8
• CVE-2015-6861 Auth bypass in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2012-3240 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3vvh-cqhq-ffrh.