CVE-2020-5406 PCF Autoscaling logs its database credentials

2020-04-0900:00:00

CWE-522

pivotal

www.cve.org

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

27.0%

JSON

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs, 2.6.x versions prior to 2.6.18, 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.11, and 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.5, includes a version of PCF Autoscaling that writes database connection properties to its log, including database username and password. A malicious user with access to those logs may gain unauthorized access to the database being used by Autoscaling.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs",
    "vendor": "Pivotal",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "2.8.5",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.8.x",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "lessThan": "2.7.11",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.7.x",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "lessThan": "2.6.18",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.6.x",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References

tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2020-5406