CVE-2016-8218 is a critical vulnerability affecting Cloud Foundry routing-release versions prior to 0.142.0 and cf-release versions 203 to 231. It stems from incomplete validation logic in JSON Web Token (JWT) libraries, allowing unprivileged attackers to impersonate other users to the routing API. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges or user interaction, and leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Its FAUCET Risk Score is 93/100. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available. Despite the lack of exploit intelligence, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, placing it in the top 1% of all CVEs for community attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 203CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cf-release:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
204CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cf-release:204:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
205CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cf-release:205:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
206CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cf-release:206:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
207CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cf-release:207:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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.