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CVE-2016-6637

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-6637 describes multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities affecting various components of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), including UAA, Elastic Runtime, and Ops Manager, across several versions. This critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.6) allows remote attackers to hijack authenticated user sessions to approve or deny scopes through profile or authorization pages. While the attack complexity is low and requires user interaction, a successful exploit could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 241CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.6CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0073 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 834 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.8 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 2.7.4.7
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 3.3.0.5
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 3.4.4
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 3.7.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-4m8c-h7fr-gq5ccritical

Cloud Foundry vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery

May 13, 2022

References

pivotal.io / security/cve-2016-6637
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/93245