CVE-2016-6659 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability (CVSS 8.1) affecting Cloud Foundry, UAA, and UAA BOSH releases before specific versions. Attackers can gain privileges by accessing UAA logs and then running a specially crafted application that interacts with a configured SAML provider. The attack complexity is high, but successful exploitation could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 23.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 247.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 3.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_uaa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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