Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-9797
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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