Denial of Service in Apache Mesos Due to Empty Request Path Handling

CVE-2017-9790 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

When handling a libprocess message wrapped in an HTTP request, libprocess in Apache Mesos before 1.1.3, 1.2.x before 1.2.2, 1.3.x before 1.3.1, and 1.4.0-dev crashes if the request path is empty, because the parser assumes the request path always starts with '/'. A malicious actor can therefore cause a denial of service of Mesos masters rendering the Mesos-controlled cluster inoperable.

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