CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-5406

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Published: Apr 10, 2020 | Modified: Apr 13, 2020
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Tanzu_application_service_for_vms Vmware 2.6.0 (including) 2.6.18 (excluding)
Tanzu_application_service_for_vms Vmware 2.7.0 (including) 2.7.11 (excluding)
Tanzu_application_service_for_vms Vmware 2.8.0 (including) 2.8.5 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References