CVE-2016-9885

critical

Published 2017-01-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

7.5

VIR risk

9.8

Description

An issue was discovered in Pivotal GemFire for PCF 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.5 and 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.1. The gfsh (Geode Shell) endpoint, used by operators and application developers to connect to their cluster, is unauthenticated and publicly accessible. Because HTTPS communications are terminated at the gorouter, communications from the gorouter to GemFire clusters are unencrypted. An attacker could run any command available on gfsh and could cause denial of service, lost confidentiality of data, escalate privileges, or eavesdrop on other communications between the gorouter and the cluster.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security_alert@emc.com — https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-9885

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
pivotal_software	gemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.6.0.0`
pivotal_software	gemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.6.1`
pivotal_software	gemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.6.2`
pivotal_software	gemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.6.3.0`
pivotal_software	gemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.6.4.0`
pivotal_software	gemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.7.0.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-200 CWE-254

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.