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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-9797

When an Apache Geode cluster before v1.2.1 is operating in secure mode, an unauthenticated client can enter multi-user authentication mode and send metadata messages. These metadata operations could leak information about application data types. In addition, an attacker could perform a denial of service attack on the cluster.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:37 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-9797

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Oct 2017, 01:29 UTC

When an Apache Geode cluster before v1.2.1 is operating in secure mode, an unauthenticated client can enter multi-user authentication mode and send metadata messages. These metadata operations could leak information about application data types. In addition, an attacker could perform a denial of service attack on the cluster.

osv:CVE-2017-9797
Complete source record
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