{"id":"CVE-2017-4961","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-4961","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:10:31.809Z","title":"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.\"","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.\"","published":"2017-06-13T06:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:19:38.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security_alert@emc.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-354"],"affected":["cloud foundry/bosh"],"epss":{"score":0.0048,"percentile":0.41199,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.48%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2017-4961/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security_alert@emc.com"},{"url":"https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2017-4961/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-4961","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}