Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2016-0780 is a denial-of-service risk in older Pivotal Cloud Foundry releases. In certain cases, disk quota enforcement could be bypassed, allowing an attacker to consume all disk on DEAs or CELLs and disrupt other applications on the platform.
Executive priority
Prioritize remediation if legacy Cloud Foundry environments host business-critical or multi-tenant workloads. The main business risk is platform instability from disk exhaustion, not data theft based on the provided evidence.
Technical view
Affected Cloud Foundry versions do not properly enforce disk quotas when an improper disk quota value is used. The documented impact is disk exhaustion on DEAs/CELLs, potentially denying service to other applications. The provided sources do not include CVSS, CWE, or detailed exploit prerequisites.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to cf-release v231 and lower, Elastic Runtime 1.5.x before 1.5.17, and Elastic Runtime 1.6.x before 1.6.18. The source bundle does not define whether attacker authentication or application push rights are required.
Exploitation context
The CVE is not listed as CISA KEV in the provided bundle. Sources describe a possible denial of service through disk exhaustion, but do not provide evidence of active exploitation or public weaponization.
Researcher notes
The public bundle is sparse: no CVSS, CWE, detailed root cause, exploit prerequisites, or patch notes are included. Treat the affected-version boundaries as the strongest evidence and avoid assuming exploitability beyond disk quota misuse causing DoS.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade cf-release beyond v231 where applicable.
- Upgrade Elastic Runtime 1.5.x to 1.5.17 or later.
- Upgrade Elastic Runtime 1.6.x to 1.6.18 or later.
- Review the Pivotal advisory for vendor-specific operational guidance.
- Monitor DEA/CELL disk capacity until affected deployments are remediated.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Cloud Foundry cf-release and Elastic Runtime versions.
- Confirm no production deployment runs listed affected versions.
- Review platform logs for repeated disk quota or disk exhaustion events.
- Check DEA/CELL disk utilization trends for abnormal saturation.
- Verify disk quota policy enforcement after upgrading.
Public sources used
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- CVSS
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- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-0780CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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