🛡️ CVE-2017-4992 — cloudfoundry-identity-server

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-269 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Cloud Foundry UAA privilege escalation with user invitations

An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry Foundation cf-release versions prior to v261; UAA release 2.x versions prior to v2.7.4.17, 3.6.x versions prior to v3.6.11, 3.9.x versions prior to v3.9.13, and other versions prior to v4.2.0; and UAA bosh release (uaa-release) 13.x versions prior to v13.15, 24.x versions prior to v24.10, 30.x versions prior to 30.3, and other versions prior to v37. There is privilege escalation (arbitrary password reset) with user invitations.

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. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2017-4992 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2017-4992 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-server (from 3.10.0 up to 4.2.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 1 March 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)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
www.cloudfoundry.org (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-03-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-server 3.10.0 4.2.0

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