Insufficient Session Expiration in Cloud Foundry UAA - CVE-2015-5171
Published: October 24, 2017 / Updated: July 18, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31403
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5171
CWE-ID: CWE-613
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Cloud Foundry Foundation
Affected software:
Cloud Foundry UAA
Cloud Foundry UAA
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
The password change functionality in Cloud Foundry Runtime cf-release before 216, UAA before 2.5.2, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Elastic Runtime before 1.7.0 allow attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging failure to expire existing sessions.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-5171
Install update from vendor's website.