CVE-2017-4959 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Pivotal PCF Elastic Runtime versions prior to 1.8.29 and 1.9.7. An authorized user can exploit this flaw to take over another user's account within Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployments utilizing the Pivotal Account application, leading to account lockout and potential privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and no user interaction required, allowing for full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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