Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2017-6199 is an access-control weakness in Sandstorm before build 0.203. A remote user could bypass an organization restriction by placing a comma in an email-address field. The practical concern is unauthorized access to a Sandstorm instance intended to be limited to approved organizational users.
Executive priority
Treat as a targeted access-control cleanup item. Prioritize quickly for internet-facing Sandstorm instances or environments relying on organization restrictions to protect internal applications or data.
Technical view
The issue concerns Sandstorm's organization restriction logic before build 0.203. Source material describes a parsing/validation flaw involving comma-containing email-address fields. The available record does not provide CVSS, CWE, detailed affected CPEs, or exploit telemetry.
Likely exposure
Exposure is likely limited to Sandstorm deployments running builds before 0.203 with organization-based access restrictions enabled. Publicly reachable instances have higher business relevance because the described attacker is remote.
Exploitation context
The provided sources do not show known active exploitation, and the CVE is not listed as KEV. The public description indicates remote bypass potential, but does not provide exploit maturity, prevalence, or real-world incident evidence.
Researcher notes
Evidence is sparse but consistent: the CVE description and referenced Sandstorm commit indicate a pre-0.203 organization restriction bypass tied to comma handling in email fields. Avoid assuming broader product impact beyond Sandstorm without vendor evidence.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Sandstorm to build 0.203 or later.
- Review Sandstorm vendor guidance and the referenced fixing commit.
- Confirm organization restriction settings match intended access policy.
- Audit existing accounts for suspicious or malformed email-address values.
Validation and detection
- Identify any Sandstorm instances and record their build versions.
- Flag deployments running builds earlier than 0.203.
- Check whether organization restrictions are enabled on those deployments.
- Review account records for comma-containing email-address fields.
- Confirm tests cover comma handling in email-address validation.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/commit/37bd9a7f4eb776cdc2d3615f0bfea1254b66f59dCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/v0.202/shell/packages/sandstorm-db/db.js#L1112CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://sandstorm.io/news/2017-03-02-security-reviewCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://devco.re/blog/2018/01/26/Sandstorm-Security-Review-CVE-2017-6200-en/CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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