CVE-2016-6659

Summary

CVECVE-2016-6659
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-12-23 05:59:00 UTC
Updated2021-08-06 13:05:00 UTC
DescriptionCloud Foundry before 248; UAA 2.x before 2.7.4.12, 3.x before 3.6.5, and 3.7.x through 3.9.x before 3.9.3; and UAA bosh release (aka uaa-release) before 13.9 for UAA 3.6.5 and before 24 for UAA 3.9.3 allow attackers to gain privileges by accessing UAA logs and subsequently running a specially crafted application that interacts with a configured SAML provider.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-287

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cloudfoundry Cloud Foundry Uaa Bosh All All All All
Application Pivotal Software Cloud Foundry All All All All
Application Pivotal Software Cloud Foundry Uaa All All All All
Application Pivotal Software Cloud Foundry Uaa Bosh All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2016-6659: UAA Privilege Escalation | Cloud Foundry CONFIRM www.cloudfoundry.org Vendor Advisory
95085 BID www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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