CVE-2018-15761 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Cloud Foundry UAA and UAA release versions prior to 4.23.0 and v64.0, respectively. An authenticated attacker can manipulate a consent page's URL and content to acquire a token with arbitrary scopes, thereby escalating their privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the potential for significant impact warrants attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.23.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_uaa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 64.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloudfoundry_uaa_release:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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