CVE-2017-9790 Use after free in Apache Mesos

What is CVE-2017-9790?

CVE-2017-9790 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Mesos, published on 28 Sep 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

When handling a libprocess message wrapped in an HTTP request, libprocess in Apache Mesos before 1.1.3, 1.2.x before 1.2.2, 1.3.x before 1.3.1, and 1.4.0-dev crashes if the request path is empty, because the parser assumes the request path always starts with '/'. A malicious actor can therefore cause a denial of service of Mesos masters rendering the Mesos-controlled cluster inoperable.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9790?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.mesos:mesos. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Mesos.

How do I fix CVE-2017-9790?

Upgrade org.apache.mesos:mesos to a fixed version for your release line: 1.1.3, 1.2.2 or 1.3.1.

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-2017-9790 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9790 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Mesos

• CVE-2019-5736 Privilege escalation in n/a High 8.6
• CVE-2019-0204 Docker image code execution with Apache Mesos High 7.8
• CVE-2018-11793 Stack Overflow in Apache Mesos High 7.5
• CVE-2018-1330 Crash when decoding malformed HTTP requests or malformed JSON payload High 7.5
• CVE-2017-7687 Denial of service in Apache Mesos High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vpcv-78cp-whr3.