Apache Mesos Denial of Service Vulnerability in Libprocess

CVE-2017-9790

What is CVE-2017-9790?

A flaw in the libprocess component of Apache Mesos allows for denial of service attacks when handling HTTP requests lacking a defined request path. This issue arises in various versions prior to 1.1.3, 1.2.2, 1.3.1, and the 1.4.0-dev version, where the absence of a request path causes the parser to fail, potentially crashing the Mesos master. Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to inoperability of the Mesos-controlled cluster, severely impacting service availability.

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