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CVE-2016-8218
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-20
Description
An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry Foundation routing-release versions prior to 0.142.0 and cf-release versions 203 to 231. Incomplete validation logic in JSON Web Token (JWT) libraries can allow unprivileged attackers to impersonate other users to the routing API, aka an "Unauthenticated JWT signing algorithm in routing" issue.
Affected products
- Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller cf-release versions prior to v255: through 203; 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209 (+21)
- Cloudfoundry Routing-Release: through 0.141.0
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