CVE-2017-14388: Pivotal Software Grootfs

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Pivotal Software Grootfs: version 0.3.0 only; version 0.4.0 only; version 0.5.0 only; version 0.6.0 only; version 0.7.0 only; version 0.8.0 only; …

Published 2017-11-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.