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CVE-2016-6659

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Cloud Foundry before 248; UAA 2.x before 2.7.4.12, 3.x before 3.6.5, and 3.7.x through 3.9.x before 3.9.3; and UAA bosh release (aka uaa-release) before 13.9 for UAA 3.6.5 and before 24 for UAA 3.9.3 allow attackers to gain privileges by accessing UAA logs and subsequently running a specially crafted application that interacts with a configured SAML provider.

Affected products

• Cloudfoundry Cloud Foundry Uaa Bosh: through 23.0
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry: through 247.0
• Cloud Foundry UAA: through 3.9.2

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95085
• https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2016-6659/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95085
• https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2016-6659/

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