High severity · published Aug 25, 2026
CVE-2026-59335
Case-Sensitive Authorization Check Bypass via Identity Zone ID Case Manipulation Leads to Full UAA Compromise
8.7
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Improper handling of case sensitivity (CWE-178) in the identity zone authorization check in the Identity Zone Endpoint in Cloud Foundry UAA allows a remote authenticated attacker holding only the zones.write authority to bypass the intended restriction that this authority does not grant access to the privileged uaa (system) identity zone, by referring to the zone identifier in a non-lowercase form (e.g. UAA) in the request path and body. The authorization layer performs a case-sensitive comparison against the system zone identifier, while the underlying MySQL persistence layer resolves identifiers case-insensitively under its default collation, so the request is authorized incorrectly and is then resolved against the real system zone record. This allows the attacker to overwrite the system zone's JWT signing key with attacker-controlled key material, forge JWTs claiming the admin client and administrator scopes, and fully compromise UAA and any Cloud Foundry deployment that trusts it. This issue only affects UAA deployments backed by MySQL using its default collation; PostgreSQL and HSQLDB backends are not affected.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 45% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UA
UAA · Cloud Foundry
before 78.16.0 · source: vendor
CF
cf-deployment · Cloud Foundry
before 57.0.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59335
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-59335
www.cloudfoundry.org
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2026-59335-uaa-case-insensitive-check-bypass/
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