CVE-2017-4959: Pivotal Software Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Pivotal PCF Elastic Runtime 1.8.x versions prior to 1.8.29 and 1.9.x versions prior to 1.9.7. Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployments using the Pivotal Account application are vulnerable to a flaw which allows an authorized user to take over the account of another user, causing account lockout and potential escalation of privileges.

Affected products

• Pivotal Software Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.8.3 only; version 1.8.4 only; version 1.8.5 only; …

Published 2017-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.