CVE-2016-3084
The UAA reset password flow in Cloud Foundry release v236 and earlier versions, UAA release v3.3.0 and earlier versions, all versions of…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- dell
Description
The UAA reset password flow in Cloud Foundry release v236 and earlier versions, UAA release v3.3.0 and earlier versions, all versions of Login-server, UAA release v10 and earlier versions and Pivotal Elastic Runtime versions prior to 1.7.2 is vulnerable to a brute force attack due to multiple active codes at a given time. This vulnerability is applicable only when using the UAA internal user store for authentication. Deployments enabled for integration via SAML or LDAP are not affected.
Timeline
ID reserved
By dell
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected release v236 and earlier versions
- affected UAA release v3.3.0 and earlier versions
- affected All versions of Login-server
- affected UAA release v10 and earlier versions
- affected Elastic Runtime versions prior to 1.7.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverGHSA-fm5c-2rwc-887w (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-3084 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-fm5c-2rwc-887w (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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