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CVE-2018-15795

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-15795 describes a critical vulnerability in Pivotal CredHub Service Broker versions prior to 1.1.0, where a guessable random number generation method was used for UAA client secrets. This flaw allows a remote attacker to potentially guess the client secret, leading to unauthorized access or modification of user credentials within the CredHub Service. With a CVSS score of 8.1 (HIGH), this vulnerability presents a low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality and integrity, despite requiring low privileges. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:credhub_service_broker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.7
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0130 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.credhub:spring-credhub-coreFixed in: 1.1.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-q3jg-4c82-j4xhhigh

Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in Pivotal CredHub Service Broker

Nov 29, 2018

References

pivotal.io / security/cve-2018-15795
MitigationVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/105915
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry