High severity · published Jul 9, 2026
CVE-2026-47840
LDAP StartTLS unconditionally disables hostname verification
7.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A network attacker positioned between UAA and its LDAP directory can impersonate the directory using any certificate from any trusted CA, then harvest the LDAP bind password and every end-user password sent during simple-bind authentication, and return forged group memberships that grant themselves admin scopes. This affects every deployment that authenticates users against LDAP over StartTLS.
Affected versions: UAA versions prior to v78.13.0; Cf-deployment versions prior to v56.2.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 12% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CF
Cf-deployment · CloudFoundry Foundation
before 56.2.0 · source: vendor
UA
UAA · CloudFoundry Foundation
before 78.13.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47840
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-47840
www.cloudfoundry.org
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2026-47840-ldap-starttls-unconditionally-disables-hostname-verification/
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