What is CVE-2017-14388?

CVE-2017-14388 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pivotal Software Grootfs, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-11-13.

How severe is CVE-2017-14388?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Pivotal Software Grootfs

CVE-2017-14388

Cloud Foundry Foundation GrootFS release 0.3.x versions prior to 0.30.0 do not validate DiffIDs, allowing specially crafted images to poison the grootfs volume cache. For example, this could allow an attacker to provide an image layer that GrootFS would consider to be the Ubuntu base layer.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.007 (50.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Pivotal_software Grootfs — versions 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.5.0
N/a Grootfs Release 0.3.x Versions Prior To 0.30.0 — versions GrootFS release GrootFS release 0.3.x versions prior to 0.30.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

security_alert@emc.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14388?: CVE-2017-14388 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pivotal Software Grootfs, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-11-13.
How severe is CVE-2017-14388?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.