VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0896

high
Published 2016-09-18 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.3

Description

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Elastic Runtime before 1.6.34 and 1.7.x before 1.7.12 places 169.254.0.0/16 in the all_open Application Security Group, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended network-connectivity restrictions by leveraging access to the 169.254.169.254 address.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime{"endIncluding":"1.6.33"}
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.0
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.1
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.2
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.3
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.4
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.5
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.6
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.7
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.8
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.9
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.10
pivotal_softwarecloud_foundry_elastic_runtime1.7.11

References

CWEs

CWE-254

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.