Cloud Foundry UAA reset password vulnerable to brute force attack
Date: 2022-05
Affected: maven/org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-server
Attack vector: other
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2016-3084
CVSS: 8.1 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

The UAA reset password flow in Cloud Foundry release v236 and earlier versions, UAA release v3.3.0 and earlier versions, all versions of Login-server, UAA release v10 and earlier versions and Pivotal Elastic Runtime versions prior to 1.7.2 is vulnerable to a brute force attack due to multiple active codes at a given time. This vulnerability is applicable only when using the UAA internal user store for authentication. Deployments enabled for integration via SAML or LDAP are not affected.


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