CVE-2017-8040

medium

Published 2017-09-09 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

In Single Sign-On for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) 1.3.x versions prior to 1.3.4 and 1.4.x versions prior to 1.4.3, an XXE (XML External Entity) attack was discovered in the Single Sign-On service dashboard. Privileged users can in some cases upload malformed XML leading to exposure of data on the Single Sign-On service broker file system.

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
vmware	single_sign-on_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.3.0`
vmware	single_sign-on_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.3.2`
vmware	single_sign-on_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.3.3`
vmware	single_sign-on_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.4.0`
vmware	single_sign-on_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.4.1`
vmware	single_sign-on_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.4.2`
vmware	single_sign-on_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry	`1.4.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-611

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

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