Denial of Service Vulnerability in Pivotal Cloud Foundry by Pivotal
CVE-2016-0780

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Pivotal

Status
Cloud Foundry
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 May 2017

What is CVE-2016-0780?

The identified vulnerability in certain versions of Pivotal Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime allows attackers to improperly enforce disk quotas. Specifically, in versions cf-release v231 and lower, as well as earlier versions of 1.5.x and 1.6.x, an attacker could exploit this flaw to input a compromised disk quota value. This manipulation may enable the attacker to exhaust disk resources on DEAs/CELLs, leading to service disruptions for legitimate applications and users.

Affected Version(s)

Cloud Foundry cf-release v231 and lower

Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime 1.5.x versions prior to 1.5.17

Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.18

References

https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-0780
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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