CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-5171

Insufficient Session Expiration

Published: Oct 24, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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The password change functionality in Cloud Foundry Runtime cf-release before 216, UAA before 2.5.2, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Elastic Runtime before 1.7.0 allow attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging failure to expire existing sessions.

Weakness

According to WASC, “Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization.”

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Cf-releaseCloudfoundry*216 (excluding)
Cloud_foundry_elastic_runtimePivotal_software*1.7.0 (excluding)
Cloud_foundry_uaaPivotal_software*2.5.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References