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Description

Cloud Foundry UAA incorrectly treated XML encryption to the Service Provider (confidentiality) as a substitute for XML signatures from the Identity Provider (authenticity) in two SAML flows: the OAuth 2.0 SAML2 bearer grant (token endpoint) and browser SSO (ACS) when wantAssertionSigned is set to false. Assertions or responses that were unsigned but contained encrypted content could still be accepted. Encryption uses the SP's public key from published metadata, therefore, any party, not only a trusted IdP, can produce ciphertext UAA can decrypt; successful decryption therefore does not prove the IdP issued the message. Affected versions: Cloud Foundry UAA (uaa_release) 2.0.0 through 78.13.0. Cloud Foundry CF Deployment all versions through 56.1.0.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-16 | Published 2026-06-11 | Updated 2026-06-13 | Assigner vmware




CRITICAL: 9.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Product status

Default status
unaffected

2.0.0 (custom) before 78.14.0
affected

Default status
unaffected

0.0.0 (custom) before 57.0.0
affected

References

www.cloudfoundry.org/...ed-assertions-authentication-bypass/

cve.org (CVE-2026-41005)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-41005)

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