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Self-UAA OIDC Configuration allows JWT injection to establish unauthorized sessions

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

Insufficient verification of data authenticity (CWE-345) in the external OIDC login callback in Cloud Foundry UAA v4.5.0 to v79.6.0 (inclusive) allows an authenticated UAA user to bypass the OAuth authorization-code exchange and establish an authenticated external-OIDC browser session, via submitting a UAA access token or a cross-client ID token as the callback’s id_token parameter. The issue only manifests when a UAA zone is configured with an OIDC identity provider whose issuer exactly matches that zone’s own /oauth/token endpoint (a “self-UAA” OIDC configuration). In this configuration, the callback takes a supplied id_token directly instead of requiring the authorization code exchange, and does not verify that the token was actually issued as an ID token for the specific self-OIDC relying-party client. An attacker holding any valid UAA JWT for themselves — including a plain access token with only uaa.user scope, or a valid ID token issued to an unrelated client such as cf — can present it as the callback’s id_token and be authenticated into a mapped local (“shadow”) account. Because the resulting session is not verified against the originating token’s true audience or user_id, its effective privilege depends entirely on the shadow account’s group memberships, which can include administrative scopes such as clients.write. Exploitation requires a valid UAA user JWT, a valid browser login state for the target zone, and the presence of a self-referential OIDC provider configu

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CVE-2026-59357

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cf-deployment

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[
  {
    "repo": "https://github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa",
    "vendor": "Cloud Foundry",
    "product": "UAA",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "4.5.0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "79.6.0"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "79.7.0",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "repo": "https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-deployment",
    "vendor": "Cloud Foundry",
    "product": "cf-deployment",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "60.4.0"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "60.5.0",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ]
  }
]
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