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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-6659

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:19 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2016-6659

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Dec 2016, 05:59 UTC

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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  "id": "70951d144840fff684cde4ed662f998c233f32c5cb0e8fd8babf64b10d5b5905",
  "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"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "69fc38968ecf6d0748acbfec7aac9ca32cf4ed3d"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:cloud_foundry_uaa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.9.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
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            "3.9.1",
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            "travis-success-1497",
            "travis-success-1478",
            "travis-success-1475",
            "1.8.0",
            "1.6.2",
            "1.6.1",
            "1.5.4.1",
            "1.5.4",
            "1.5.3",
            "1.5.2.1",
            "1.5.2",
            "1.5.0",
            "1.4.7",
            "1.4.6",
            "1.4.5",
            "1.4.3",
            "1.4.2",
            "1.4.1",
            "1.4.0",
            "1.2.6",
            "1.2.0",
            "1.1.2",
            "1.1.1",
            "1.1",
            "1.0.3",
            "1.0.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6659.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:05.822124404Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cve-2016-6659/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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            ],
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            ],
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              {
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                  {
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                  }
                ],
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              }
            ]
          },
          {
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            ],
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            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "last_affected": "3.9.2"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "3.9.2"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-6659",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "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"
}