CVE-2016-6651: Privilege Escalation in UAA
Severity

High
Vendor

Cloud Foundry Foundation
Versions Affected

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Cloud Foundry release v242 and earlier versions
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UAA release v3.7.0 & earlier versions
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UAA bosh release (uaa-release) v16 & earlier versions

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified with the
/oauth/token endpoint in UAA allowing users to elevate the privileges in
the token issued.
Mitigation

OSS users are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:

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Upgrade to Cloud Foundry v243 [1] or later
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For standalone UAA users
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For users using UAA Version 3.0.0 - 3.7.0, please upgrade to UAA
Release to v3.7.3[2], v3.4.5[3] or v3.3.0.6[4]
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For users using standalone UAA Version 2.X.X, please upgrade to UAA
Release to v2.7.4.8 [5]
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For users using UAA bosh release, please upgrade to UAA-Release v17
[6] if upgrading to v3.7.3 [2] ,v12.6 [7] if upgrading to v3.4.5[3] or
v11.7 [8] if upgrading to v3.3.0.6[4]

Credit

SAP HCP Security Team
References

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[1] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release/releases/tag/v243
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[2] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa/releases/tag/3.7.3
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[3] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa/releases/tag/3.4.5
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[4] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa/releases/tag/3.3.0.6
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[5] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa/releases/tag/2.7.4.8
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[6] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa-release/releases/tag/v17
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[7] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa-release/releases/tag/v12.6
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[8] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa-release/releases/tag/v11.7

History2016-09-26: Initial vulnerability report published