CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-9790 — Apache Mesos security vulnerability
High
CVSS 7.5
When handling a libprocess message wrapped in an HTTP request, libprocess in Apache Mesos before 1.1.3, 1.2.x before 1.2.2, 1.3.x before 1.3.1, and 1.4.0-dev crashes if the request path is empty, because the parser assumes the request path always starts with '/'. A malicious actor can therefore cause a denial of service of Mesos masters rendering the Mesos-controlled cluster inoperable.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.5 (3.0)
- Published
- 2017-09-29
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Affected products
- apache / mesos
- apache / mesos / 1.2.0
- apache / mesos / 1.2.1
- apache / mesos / 1.3.0
- apache / mesos / 1.3.1
- apache / mesos / 1.4.0-dev
Matched remediation archetype
Use-after-free, double free, and expired resource use
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Check exposure
- Trace ownership, references, callbacks, asynchronous tasks, and teardown paths around the affected object or resource.
- Identify reachable inputs and timing or state transitions that can release the object while references remain.
- Confirm affected builds, allocators, feature flags, architectures, and process privileges.
Remediate safely
- Apply the maintained ownership or lifetime fix and rebuild all artifacts containing the affected native code.
- Use explicit ownership, safe reference management, cancellation and join semantics, and idempotent teardown.
- Add deterministic lifetime tests plus isolated sanitizer and concurrency coverage for shutdown and error paths.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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