Pivotal Cloud Foundry Ops Manager up to 1.6.16/1.7.7 vCloud/vSphere SSH cryptographic issue

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Pivotal Cloud Foundry Ops Manager up to 1.6.16/1.7.7. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component vCloud/vSphere. Performing a manipulation results in cryptographic issue (SSH). This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2016-0897. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in Pivotal Cloud Foundry Ops Manager up to 1.6.16/1.7.7 (Cloud Software). This affects an unknown code of the component vCloud/vSphere. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issue vulnerability (SSH). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-310. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Ops Manager before 1.6.17 and 1.7.x before 1.7.8, when vCloud or vSphere is used, does not properly enable SSH access for operators, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors.

The weakness was released 09/18/2016 (Website). The advisory is shared at pivotal.io. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-0897 since 12/17/2015. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/18/2019). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1600 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.6.17 or 1.7.8 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-91644 and VDB-91639. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Type

• Cloud Software

Vendor

• Pivotal

Name

• Cloud Foundry Ops Manager

Version

• 1.6.0
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.6.3
• 1.6.4
• 1.6.5
• 1.6.6
• 1.6.7
• 1.6.8
• 1.6.9
• 1.6.10
• 1.6.11
• 1.6.12
• 1.6.13
• 1.6.14
• 1.6.15
• 1.6.16
• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.7.6
• 1.7.7

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://pivotal.io/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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