7.8

CVE-2017-14388: pivotal_software grootfs Improper Input Validation

CVSS: 7.8v3.0HighModified
Published 13-11-2017Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-14388 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in pivotal_software grootfs. EPSS estimates a 0.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.73%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 13-11-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Cloud Foundry Foundation GrootFS release 0.3.x versions prior to 0.30.0 do not validate DiffIDs, allowing specially crafted images to poison the grootfs volume cache. For example, this could allow an attacker to provide an image layer that GrootFS would consider to be the Ubuntu base layer.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 1 source · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.73%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

54%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.73% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.73%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Pivotal_software1 product
  • grootfs0.3.0 | 0.4.0 | 0.5.0 | 0.6.0 | 0.7.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.9.0 | 0.10.0 | 0.11.0 | 0.12.0 | 0.13.0 | 0.14.0 | 0.15.0 | 0.16.0 | 0.17.0 | 0.17.1 | 0.18.0 | 0.19.0 | 0.20.0 | 0.21.0 | 0.24.0 | 0.25.0 | 0.26.0 | 0.27.0 | 0.28.0 | 0.28.1 | 0.29.0

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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