Medium severity · published Oct 6, 2026
CVE-2026-59357
Self-UAA OIDC Configuration allows JWT injection to establish unauthorized sessions
6.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Insufficient verification of data authenticity (CWE-345) in the external OIDC login callback in Cloud Foundry UAA v4.5.0 to v79.6.0 (inclusive) allows an authenticated UAA user to bypass the OAuth authorization-code exchange and establish an authenticated external-OIDC browser session, via submitting a UAA access token or a cross-client ID token as the callback’s id_token parameter.
The issue only manifests when a UAA zone is configured with an OIDC identity provider whose issuer exactly matches that zone’s own /oauth/token endpoint (a “self-UAA” OIDC configuration). In this configuration, the callback takes a supplied id_token directly instead of requiring the authorization code exchange, and does not verify that the token was actually issued as an ID token for the specific self-OIDC relying-party client. An attacker holding any valid UAA JWT for themselves — including a plain access token with only uaa.user scope, or a valid ID token issued to an unrelated client such as cf — can present it as the callback’s id_token and be authenticated into a mapped local (“shadow”) account. Because the resulting session is not verified against the originating token’s true audience or user_id, its effective privilege depends entirely on the shadow account’s group memberships, which can include administrative scopes such as clients.write.
Exploitation requires a valid UAA user JWT, a valid browser login state for the target zone, and the presence of a self-referential OIDC provider configuration — this is not a pre-authentication vulnerability, and does not by itself grant privileges beyond those already held by the mapped shadow account.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 8% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UA
UAA · Cloud Foundry
4.5.0 through 79.6.0 · source: vendor
CF
cf-deployment · Cloud Foundry
through 60.4.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59357
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-59357
www.cloudfoundry.org
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2026-59357-self-uaa-oidc-configuration-allows-jwt-injection-to-establish-unauthorized-sessions/
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