Description
A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in UAA's private_key_jwt client-authentication mechanism. When UAA retrieves a remote JWKS URI, it caches the response. Invalid authentication attempts can trigger full deserialization of this cached data. An attacker with prerequisites (write access to clients or a compromised endpoint) can send anonymous requests that force repeated parsing of large cached objects, causing excessive CPU usage and potential Java heap exhaustion via OutOfMemoryError, resulting in service unavailability.
Published: 2026-10-30
Score: 6.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Cloudfoundry
Cloudfoundry cf-deployment
Cloudfoundry uaa
Vendors & Products Cloudfoundry
Cloudfoundry cf-deployment
Cloudfoundry uaa

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-400
CWE-502

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:45:00 +0000

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Description A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in UAA's private_key_jwt client-authentication mechanism. When UAA retrieves a remote JWKS URI, it caches the response. Invalid authentication attempts can trigger full deserialization of this cached data. An attacker with prerequisites (write access to clients or a compromised endpoint) can send anonymous requests that force repeated parsing of large cached objects, causing excessive CPU usage and potential Java heap exhaustion via OutOfMemoryError, resulting in service unavailability.
Title DoS Vulnerability in UAA Related to JWKS URI Handling
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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Cloudfoundry Cf-deployment Uaa
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-30T08:24:47.718Z

Reserved: 2026-07-04T18:15:31.160Z

Link: CVE-2026-59396

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-30T09:17:15.197

Modified: 2026-10-30T09:17:15.197

Link: CVE-2026-59396

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-30T09:45:07Z

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