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.

Published 9 y ago 2017-01-06 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

9.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.5%

percentile 75%

Public exploits

none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.54% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	9.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	7.5	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`

Affected products

n/a GemFire for PCF 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.5 and 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.1

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-254 7PK - Security Features

References

securityfocus.com /bid/95270 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
pivotal.io /security/cve-2016-9885 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-9885
NVD: CVE-2016-9885

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