🛡️ CVE-2026-47840
Description
A network attacker positioned between UAA and its LDAP directory can impersonate the directory using any certificate from any trusted CA, then harvest the LDAP bind password and every end-user password sent during simple-bind authentication, and return forged group memberships that grant themselves admin scopes. This affects every deployment that authenticates users against LDAP over StartTLS.
Affected versions: UAA versions prior to v78.13.0; Cf-deployment versions prior to v56.2.0.
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 changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity high, availability none.
Affected software
CVE-2026-47840 is recorded against 1 package.
- unknown
Timeline and source
Published on 9 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.
References
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| unknown | — | — |
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