CVE-2017-9799: Improper Access Control

August 9, 2017 (updated October 3, 2019)

It was found that under some situations and configurations of Apache Storm, it is theoretically possible for the owner of a topology to trick the supervisor to launch a worker as a different, non-root, user. In the worst case this could lead to secure credentials of the other user being compromised.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/100235
www.securitytracker.com/id/1039116
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9799

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