CVE-2016-6658 is a critical vulnerability affecting Cloud Foundry cf-release and Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime versions prior to 245. It allows an operator with privileged access to the Cloud Controller database to view user-provided credentials embedded in custom buildpack URLs, which are stored unencrypted. This network-based vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires low privileges, but can lead to high confidentiality and integrity impacts, as reflected by its CVSS score of 9.6. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 245CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cf-release:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.6.49CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.7.0, < 1.7.31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.8.0, < 1.8.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 1.0 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.6 GitHub 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 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.