High
Security advisory
Cloud Foundry before 248; UAA 2.x before 2.7.4.12, 3.x before 3.6.5, and 3.7.x through 3.9.x before 3.9.3; and UAA bosh release (aka uaa-release) before 13.9 for UAA 3.6.5 and before 24 for UAA 3.9.3 allow attackers to gain privileges by accessing UAA logs and subsequently running a specially crafted application that interacts with a configured SAML provider.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-6659
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cloud Foundry before 248; UAA 2.x before 2.7.4.12, 3.x before 3.6.5, and 3.7.x through 3.9.x before 3.9.3; and UAA bosh release (aka uaa-release) before 13.9 for UAA 3.6.5 and before 24 for UAA 3.9.3 allow attackers to gain privileges by accessing UAA logs and subsequently running a specially crafted application that interacts with a configured SAML provider.
osv:CVE-2016-6659
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6659",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2016-6659",
"summary": "Cloud Foundry before 248; UAA 2.x before 2.7.4.12, 3.x before 3.6.5, and 3.7.x through 3.9.x before 3.9.3; and UAA bosh release (aka uaa-release) before 13.9 for UAA 3.6.5 and before 24 for UAA 3.9.3 allow attackers to gain privileges by accessing UAA logs and subsequently running a specially crafted application that interacts with a configured SAML provider.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-6659",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2016-6659",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2016-6659"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}
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"affected": [
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"type": "GIT",
"events": [
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"introduced": "0"
},
{
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"versions": [
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"travis-success-1497",
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"1.8.0",
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"1.6.1",
"1.5.4.1",
"1.5.4",
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"1.5.2.1",
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"1.4.0",
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"1.2.0",
"1.1.2",
"1.1.1",
"1.1",
"1.0.3",
"1.0.1"
],
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:05.822124404Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2016-6659/"
],
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}
},
"related_cves": [
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"evidence": "/id"
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 440844,
"published_at": "2016-12-23T05:59:00.127+00:00"
}