Brute Force Attack Vulnerability in UAA Reset Password Flow

CVE-2016-3084 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The UAA reset password flow in Cloud Foundry release v236 and earlier versions, UAA release v3.3.0 and earlier versions, all versions of Login-server, UAA release v10 and earlier versions and Pivotal Elastic Runtime versions prior to 1.7.2 is vulnerable to a brute force attack due to multiple active codes at a given time. This vulnerability is applicable only when using the UAA internal user store for authentication. Deployments enabled for integration via SAML or LDAP are not affected.

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