CVE-2016-6653: Pivotal Software Cloud Foundry Cf MySQL

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The MariaDB audit_plugin component in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) cf-mysql-release 27 and 28 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading syslog messages, as demonstrated by cleartext credentials.

Affected products

• Pivotal Software Cloud Foundry Cf MySQL: version 27.0 only; version 28.0 only

Published 2016-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.