VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-4961

high
Published 2017-06-13 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

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."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cloud_foundrybosh260
cloud_foundrybosh260.1
cloud_foundrybosh260.2
cloud_foundrybosh260.3
cloud_foundrybosh260.4
cloud_foundrybosh260.5
cloud_foundrybosh260.6
cloud_foundrybosh260.7
cloud_foundrybosh261
cloud_foundrybosh261.1
cloud_foundrybosh261.2

References

CWEs

CWE-354

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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