What is CVE-2015-5172?

CVE-2015-5172 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Cloudfoundry Cf-release, classified under Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-10-24.

How severe is CVE-2015-5172?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Cloudfoundry Cf-release

CVE-2015-5172

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 password reset links.

EPSS: 0.004 (61.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Cloudfoundry Cf-release
Pivotal_software Cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime
Pivotal_software Cloud_foundry_uaa
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-640 — Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-5172?: CVE-2015-5172 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Cloudfoundry Cf-release, classified under Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-10-24.
How severe is CVE-2015-5172?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.