What is CVE-2018-15759?

CVE-2018-15759 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Pivotal On Demand Services Sdk, classified under Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2018-11-19.

How severe is CVE-2018-15759?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Pivotal On Demand Services Sdk

CVE-2018-15759

Pivotal Cloud Foundry On Demand Services SDK, versions prior to 0.24 contain an insecure method of verifying credentials. A remote unauthenticated malicious user may make many requests to the service broker with different credentials, allowing them to infer valid credentials and gain access to perform broker operations.

EPSS: 0.017 (75.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Pivotal On Demand Services Sdk — versions all versions
Pivotal_software Broker_api
Pivotal_software On_demand_services_sdk

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-307 — Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

References

security_alert@emc.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
security_alert@emc.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-15759?: CVE-2018-15759 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Pivotal On Demand Services Sdk, classified under Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2018-11-19.
How severe is CVE-2018-15759?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.