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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-15696

When an Apache Geode cluster before v1.4.0 is operating in secure mode, the Geode configuration service does not properly authorize configuration requests. This allows an unprivileged user who gains access to the Geode locator to extract configuration data and previously deployed application code.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:49 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-15696

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Feb 2018, 02:29 UTC

When an Apache Geode cluster before v1.4.0 is operating in secure mode, the Geode configuration service does not properly authorize configuration requests. This allows an unprivileged user who gains access to the Geode locator to extract configuration data and previously deployed application code.

osv:CVE-2017-15696
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15696",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "When an Apache Geode cluster before v1.4.0 is operating in secure mode, the Geode configuration service does not properly authorize configuration requests. This allows an unprivileged user who gains access to the Geode locator to extract configuration data and previously deployed application code.",
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    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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        }
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:33.345740529Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/28989e6ed0d3c29e46a489ae508302a50407a40691d5dc968f78cd3f%40%3Cdev.geode.apache.org%3E"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433248,
  "published_at": "2018-02-26T02:29:00.317+00:00"
}