CVE-2017-9799: Apache Storm

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was found that under some situations and configurations of Apache Storm 1.x before 1.0.4 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1, it is theoretically possible for the owner of a topology to trick the supervisor to launch a worker as a different, non-root, user. In the worst case this could lead to secure credentials of the other user being compromised.

Affected products

• Apache Storm: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.1 only

Published 2017-08-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.