CVE-2017-4960
HighSummary
An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry release v247 through v252 and UAA release v3.9.0 through v3.11.0 that may lead to a denial of service attack on UAA OAuth clients.
Risk Assessment
The organization may be vulnerable to attacks that could disrupt the availability of OAuth-related services, impacting the operation of applications relying on these services.
Recommendation
It is recommended to upgrade to the latest versions of Cloud Foundry and UAA to mitigate the risk of denial of service attacks.
Other vulnerabilities in Cloud Foundry, UAA
See all- CVE-2017-4963High
An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry affecting versions v252 and earlier, as well as UAA versions from v2.0.0 to v2.7.4.12 and from v3.0.0 to v3.11.0. UAA is vulnerable to session fixation when configured to authenticate against external SAML or OpenID Connect based identity providers.
- CVE-2016-6659High
Cloud Foundry and UAA versions before 248; UAA 2.x before 2.7.4.12, 3.x before 3.6.5, and 3.7.x through 3.9.x before 3.9.3 have a vulnerability that allows attackers to gain privileges by accessing UAA logs and subsequently running a specially crafted application that interacts with a configured SAML provider.
- CVE-2026-40965Critical
Cloud Foundry UAA versions v76.12.0 through v78.12.0 inadvertently expose EC private keys through the public /token_keys endpoint. The vulnerability affects only deployments using EC keys for JWT token signing.
- CVE-2026-59335High
Improper handling of case sensitivity (CWE-178) in the identity zone authorization check in the Identity Zone Endpoint in Cloud Foundry UAA allows a remote authenticated attacker holding only the zones.write authority to bypass the intended restriction that this authority does not grant access to the privileged uaa (system) identity zone, by referring to the zone identifier in a non-lowercase form (e.g. UAA) in the request path and body. The authorization layer performs a case-sensitive comparison against the system zone identifier, while the underlying MySQL persistence layer resolves identifiers case-insensitively under its default collation, so the request is authorized incorrectly and is then resolved against the real system zone record. This allows the attacker to overwrite the system zone's JWT signing key with attacker-controlled key material, forge JWTs claiming the admin client and administrator scopes, and fully compromise UAA and any Cloud Foundry deployment that trusts it. This issue only affects UAA deployments backed by MySQL using its default collation; PostgreSQL and HSQLDB backends are not affected.
Original NVD description (English source)
An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry release v247 through v252, UAA stand-alone release v3.9.0 through v3.11.0, and UAA Bosh Release v21 through v26. There is a potential to subject the UAA OAuth clients to a denial of service attack.

