🛡️ CVE-2016-6637 — cloudfoundry-identity-server

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-352 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Cloud Foundry vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) before 242; UAA 2.x before 2.7.4.7, 3.x before 3.3.0.5, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4; UAA BOSH before 11.5 and 12.x before 12.5; Elastic Runtime before 1.6.40, 1.7.x before 1.7.21, and 1.8.x before 1.8.2; and Ops Manager 1.7.x before 1.7.13 and 1.8.x before 1.8.1 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that approve or deny a scope via a profile or authorize approval page.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2016-6637 is classified as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). A state-changing request is accepted without proof it was intended, so another site can trigger it using the victim's session.

Affected software

CVE-2016-6637 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-server (from 3.5.0 up to 3.7.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 29 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
pivotal.io (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-352
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-29
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-server 3.5.0 3.7.0

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