CVE-2016-2165

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Published 2017-05-25 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

The Loggregator Traffic Controller endpoints in cf-release v231 and lower, Pivotal Elastic Runtime versions prior to 1.5.19 AND 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.20 are not cleansing request URL paths when they are invalid and are returning them in the 404 response. This could allow malicious scripts to be written directly into the 404 response.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

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
cloudfoundry	cf-release	`{"endIncluding":"231"}`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`{"endIncluding":"1.5.18"}`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.0`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.1`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.2`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.3`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.4`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.5`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.6`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.7`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.8`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.9`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.10`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.11`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.12`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.13`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.14`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.15`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.16`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.17`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.18`
pivotal_software	cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime	`1.6.19`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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