High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jun 13, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-4961
CVE-2017-4961
Description
An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry Foundation BOSH Release 261.x versions prior to 261.3 and all 260.x versions. In certain cases an authenticated Director user can provide a malicious checksum that could allow them to escalate their privileges on the Director VM, aka "BOSH Director Shell Injection Vulnerabilities."
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Affected products
11cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:260:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 10 more
- cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:260:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:260.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:260.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:260.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:260.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:260.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:260.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:260.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:261:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:261.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cloud_foundry:bosh:261.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
1- www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2017-4961/nvdVendor Advisory
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