🛡️ CVE-2016-5016 — cloudfoundry-identity-server
Description
Cloud Foundry vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation
Pivotal Cloud Foundry 239 and earlier, UAA (aka User Account and Authentication Server) 3.4.1 and earlier, UAA release 12.2 and earlier, PCF (aka Pivotal Cloud Foundry) Elastic Runtime 1.6.x before 1.6.35, and PCF Elastic Runtime 1.7.x before 1.7.13 does not validate if a certificate is expired.
How this vulnerability can be exploited
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.
Weakness class
CVE-2016-5016 is classified as CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation. A TLS certificate is accepted without proper verification, so a man-in-the-middle can present their own.
Affected software
CVE-2016-5016 is recorded against 1 package.
- org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-server (from 3.4.0 up to 3.4.2)
Timeline and source
Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 28 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
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pivotal.io (Web)
Details
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-server | 3.4.0 | 3.4.2 |
References
Similar Threats
- Unknown CVE-2018-11041
- High CVE-2018-1192
- Low CVE-2015-3189
- High CVE-2015-5170
- Critical CVE-2015-5171
More CVE 2016 advisories
Browse all of CVE 2016 in the advisory index.
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