Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-6659

Title: Pivotal Software Cloud Foundry Uaa Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-6659.

CWE Category CWE-287
Published Date Dec 23, 2016
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 8.1 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.32%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-6659: 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.

Impacted Vendors

J
jenkins 1
P
pivotal_software 2
C
cloudfoundry 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95085 https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2016-6659/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95085 https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2016-6659/
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
8.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.6
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-6659 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity HIGH
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.