CVE-2016-0780 Denial of service in Cloud Foundry
Attackers can bypass disk quotas to exhaust storage on Cloud Foundry cells, causing denial of service for other applications.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-0780?
CVE-2016-0780 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Pivotal Cloud Foundry, published on 25 May 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
It was discovered that cf-release v231 and lower, Pivotal Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime 1.5.x versions prior to 1.5.17 and Pivotal Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.18 do not properly enforce disk quotas in certain cases. An attacker could use an improper disk quota value to bypass enforcement and consume all the disk on DEAs/CELLs causing a potential denial of service for other applications.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0780?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Cloudfoundry Cf-Release, Pivotal Software Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime.
How do I fix CVE-2016-0780?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-0780 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2016-0780 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0780 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- CVE-2015-5171 Cloud Foundry Runtime Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability
- CVE-2015-5172 Cloud Foundry Runtime has Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
- CVE-2016-8218 Auth bypass in Cloud Foundry
- CVE-2017-4992 Cloud Foundry UAA privilege escalation with user invitations
- CVE-2016-6658 Information disclosure in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-68vw-f384-v6m6.