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CVE-2016-0930: Pivotal Operations Manager: Hard-coded credentials or backdoor

CVE-2016-0930 is rated critical with a CVSS v3.0 base score of 9.8 and NVD lists Pivotal Operations Manager as the affected product. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication, without any user interaction. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Ops Manager before 1.6.19 and 1.7.x before 1.7.10, when vCloud or vSphere is used, has a default password for compilation VMs, which allows remote attackers to obtain SSH access by connecting within an installation-time period during which these VMs exist.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v3.0 9.8: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network, with no need for local or physical access.
  • Attack complexity: Low. No special conditions; the attack can be repeated reliably.
  • Privileges required: None. No account or prior access is needed.
  • User interaction: None. No action from any user is needed.
  • Scope: Unchanged. Impact stays within the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High. Total loss of confidentiality; sensitive data can be fully disclosed.
  • Integrity impact: High. Total loss of integrity; data or system state can be fully modified.
  • Availability impact: High. Total loss of availability; the component can be shut down.

Underlying weakness

CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

Affected products

  • Pivotal Operations Manager: up to and including 1.6.18; 1.7.0; 1.7.1; 1.7.2; 1.7.3; 1.7.4; 1.7.5; 1.7.6; 1.7.7; 1.7.8; 1.7.9

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