CVE-2016-0883

critical

Published 2016-09-18 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

9.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Ops Manager before 1.5.14 and 1.6.x before 1.6.9 uses the same cookie-encryption key across different customers' installations, which allows remote attackers to bypass session authentication by leveraging knowledge of this key from another installation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
pivotal_software	operations_manager	`{"endIncluding":"1.5.13"}`
pivotal_software	operations_manager	`1.6.0`
pivotal_software	operations_manager	`1.6.1`
pivotal_software	operations_manager	`1.6.2`
pivotal_software	operations_manager	`1.6.3`
pivotal_software	operations_manager	`1.6.4`
pivotal_software	operations_manager	`1.6.5`
pivotal_software	operations_manager	`1.6.6`
pivotal_software	operations_manager	`1.6.7`
pivotal_software	operations_manager	`1.6.8`

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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

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