Security advisory
Cloud Foundry UAA, versions prior to 73.0.0, falls back to appending “unknown.org” to a user's email address when one is not provided and the user name does not contain an @ character. This domain is held by a private company, which leads to attack vectors including password recovery emails sent to a potentially fraudulent address. This would allow the attacker to gain complete control of the user's account.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-3787
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cloud Foundry UAA, versions prior to 73.0.0, falls back to appending “unknown.org” to a user's email address when one is not provided and the user name does not contain an @ character. This domain is held by a private company, which leads to attack vectors including password recovery emails sent to a potentially fraudulent address. This would allow the attacker to gain complete control of the user's account.
osv:CVE-2019-3787
Complete source record
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