Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password in Cloud Foundry UAA - CVE-2015-5172
Published: October 24, 2017 / Updated: July 18, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31404
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5172
CWE-ID: CWE-640
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
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 password reset links.
Affected software
Cloud Foundry UAA
How to mitigate CVE-2015-5172
Install update from vendor's website.
Cloud Foundry UAA - update to 2.5.2