Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-8218
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-8218
Complete source record
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