CWE
20
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2016-8218: Input Validation

First published: Tue Jun 13 2017(Updated: )

An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry Foundation routing-release versions prior to 0.142.0 and cf-release versions 203 to 231. Incomplete validation logic in JSON Web Token (JWT) libraries can allow unprivileged attackers to impersonate other users to the routing API, aka an "Unauthenticated JWT signing algorithm in routing" issue.

Credit: security_alert@emc.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Cloud Foundry CF Release<=203
Cloud Foundry CF Release=204
Cloud Foundry CF Release=205
Cloud Foundry CF Release=206
Cloud Foundry CF Release=207
Cloud Foundry CF Release=208
Cloud Foundry CF Release=209
Cloud Foundry CF Release=210
Cloud Foundry CF Release=211
Cloud Foundry CF Release=212
Cloud Foundry CF Release=213
Cloud Foundry CF Release=214
Cloud Foundry CF Release=215
Cloud Foundry CF Release=217
Cloud Foundry CF Release=218
Cloud Foundry CF Release=219
Cloud Foundry CF Release=220
Cloud Foundry CF Release=221
Cloud Foundry CF Release=222
Cloud Foundry CF Release=223
Cloud Foundry CF Release=224
Cloud Foundry CF Release=225
Cloud Foundry CF Release=226
Cloud Foundry CF Release=227
Cloud Foundry CF Release=228
Cloud Foundry CF Release=229
Cloud Foundry CF Release=230
Cloud Foundry CF Release=231
Pivotal Cloud Foundry Routing Release<=0.141.0

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