CVE-2016-6636

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-601

Description

The OAuth authorization implementation in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) before 242; UAA 2.x before 2.7.4.7, 3.x before 3.3.0.5, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4; UAA BOSH before 11.5 and 12.x before 12.5; Elastic Runtime before 1.6.40, 1.7.x before 1.7.21, and 1.8.x before 1.8.1; and Ops Manager 1.7.x before 1.7.13 and 1.8.x before 1.8.1 mishandles redirect_uri subdomains, which allows remote attackers to obtain implicit access tokens via a modified subdomain.

Affected products

Cloudfoundry Cloud Foundry Uaa Bosh: through 12.3
Pivotal Cloud Foundry: through 241
PCF Elastic Runtime: 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5 (+54)
Pivotal Software Cloud Foundry Ops Manager: 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5 (+8)
Cloud Foundry UAA: 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.4.0, 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 2.7.0.2 (+15)

References

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