CVE-2016-5016 describes a critical vulnerability in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and its User Account and Authentication (UAA) server, where the systems fail to validate the expiration of X.509 certificates. This oversight could allow an attacker to impersonate legitimate services or users using expired certificates, leading to unauthorized access (C:N/I:H/A:N). With a CVSS score of 5.9 (Medium), the vulnerability has a network-based attack vector and high attack complexity, but does not require user interaction or privileges. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 239CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.35CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.7.0, < 1.7.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_uaa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 12.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_uaa-release:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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