CVE-2019-3798
mediumpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.013 · 71 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller API Release, versions prior to 1.79.0, contains improper authentication when validating user permissions. A remote authenticated malicious user with the ability to create UAA clients and knowledge of the email of a victim in the foundation may escalate their privileges to that of the victim by creating a client with a name equal to the guid of their victim.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6–7.5
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affected products (2)
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references (10)
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- http://pivotal.io/cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108095cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3798cnnvd
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-3798cnnvd
- https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2019-3798cnnvd
- https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108095cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108095enisa_euvd
- https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2019-3798enisa_euvd
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