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Improper Authentication

CVE-2019-3775

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

Summary

Cloud Foundry UAA, versions prior to v70.0, allows a user to update their own email address. A remote authenticated user can impersonate a different user by changing their email address to that of a different user.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published