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FKIE_CVE-2016-6659

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-12-23 05:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:51

Severity

8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Cloud 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.

References

URL	Tags
security_alert@emc.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95085
security_alert@emc.com	https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2016-6659/	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95085
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2016-6659/	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
cloudfoundry	cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh	*
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry	*
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_uaa	*

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CVE-2016-6659 (GCVE-0-2016-6659)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-23 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:36

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Privilege Escalation

Assigner

dell mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2016-6659/	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95085	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	Cloud Foundry v247 and earlier and UAA v3.9.2 & earlier and UAA bosh (uaa-release) v23 & earlier	Affected: Cloud Foundry v247 and earlier and UAA v3.9.2 & earlier and UAA bosh (uaa-release) v23 & earlier

Date Public

2016-12-22 00:00

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Sightings

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