CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-3780

Password in Configuration File

Published: Mar 08, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, versions prior to 0.28.0, deploys K8s worker nodes that contains a configuration file with IAAS credentials. A malicious user with access to the k8s nodes can obtain IAAS credentials allowing the user to escalate privileges to gain access to the IAAS account.

Weakness

The product stores a password in a configuration file that might be accessible to actors who do not know the password.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Container_runtime Cloudfoundry * 0.28.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References