Privilege Escalation Affecting org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-uaa package, versions [3.0.0, 3.6.5)[3.7, 3.9.3)[2.0.0, 2.7.4.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGCLOUDFOUNDRYIDENTITY-451524
  • published4 Jul 2019
  • disclosed12 Dec 2016
  • creditDavid King, Graham Bleach, Piotr Komborski

Introduced: 12 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-6659  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-uaa to version 3.6.5, 3.9.3, 2.7.4.12 or higher.

Overview

org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-uaa is a Cloud Foundry User Account and Authentication plugin.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. An attacker can gain privileges by accessing UAA logs and subsequently running a specially crafted application that interacts with a configured SAML provider.

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