CVE-2016-0930

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 1.6.19 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.

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	operations_manager	`{"endIncluding":"1.6.18"}`
pivotal	operations_manager	`1.7.0`
pivotal	operations_manager	`1.7.1`
pivotal	operations_manager	`1.7.2`
pivotal	operations_manager	`1.7.3`
pivotal	operations_manager	`1.7.4`
pivotal	operations_manager	`1.7.5`
pivotal	operations_manager	`1.7.6`
pivotal	operations_manager	`1.7.7`
pivotal	operations_manager	`1.7.8`
pivotal	operations_manager	`1.7.9`

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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

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