CVE-2026-47839Federated OIDC Users Can Bypass externalGroupsWhitelist to Gain uaa.admin

Description

A vulnerability allows users authenticating through a federated OIDC provider to obtain the uaa.admin scope despite operators restricting that provider through externalGroupsWhitelist configuration. The issue occurs specifically when an OIDC identity provider uses groupMappingMode: AS_SCOPES with a wildcard externalGroupsWhitelist entry.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2026-47839-federated-oidc-users-can-bypass-externalgroupswhitelist-to-g…