CVE-2017-4959 Auth bypass in PCF Elastic Runtime
Authorized users can take over other accounts in Pivotal Cloud Foundry, leading to lockouts and privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-4959?
CVE-2017-4959 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in PCF Elastic Runtime, published on 13 Jun 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An issue was discovered in Pivotal PCF Elastic Runtime 1.8.x versions prior to 1.8.29 and 1.9.x versions prior to 1.9.7. Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployments using the Pivotal Account application are vulnerable to a flaw which allows an authorized user to take over the account of another user, causing account lockout and potential escalation of privileges.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-4959?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pivotal Software Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime.
How do I fix CVE-2017-4959?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-4959 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2017-4959 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-4959 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in PCF Elastic Runtime
- CVE-2017-2773 Auth bypass in PCF Elastic Runtime
- CVE-2017-4955 Information disclosure in PCF Elastic Runtime
- CVE-2016-6657 Open redirect in PCF Elastic Runtime 1.8.x versions prior to 1.8.12 and PCF Ops Manager 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.18 and 1.8.x versions prior to 1.8.10
- CVE-2016-0896 Security feature bypass in n/a
- CVE-2016-0926 Cross-site scripting in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jj43-34cr-mw9j.