CVE-2016-0896

Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Elastic Runtime before 1.6.34 and 1.7.x before 1.7.12 places 169.254.0.0/16 in the all_open Application Security Group, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended network-connectivity restrictions by leveraging access to the 169.254.169.254 address.

Affected products

PCF Elastic Runtime: through 1.6.33; 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5 (+6)

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92161
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-0896
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92161
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-0896

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