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CVE-2017-4973

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-4973 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the groups endpoint of Cloud Foundry UAA and cf-release, affecting various versions of these products. With a CVSSv3 score of 8.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to elevate their privileges over the network with low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh:13.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh:13.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0107 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 2.7.4.14
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 3.6.8
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 3.9.10
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 3.15.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-pgjc-gc7g-p2c6high

Cloud Foundry UAA Privilege Escalation

May 13, 2022

References

cloudfoundry.org / cve-2017-4973
Vendor Advisory