CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-5425

Improper Authentication

Published: Oct 31, 2020 | Modified: Nov 17, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.9
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Single Sign-On for Vmware Tanzu all versions prior to 1.11.3 ,1.12.x versions prior to 1.12.4 and 1.13.x prior to 1.13.1 are vulnerable to user impersonation attack.If two users are logged in to the SSO operator dashboard at the same time, with the same username, from two different identity providers, one can acquire the token of the other and thus operate with their permissions. Note: Foundation may be vulnerable only if: 1) The system zone is set up to use a SAML identity provider 2) There are internal users that have the same username as users in the external SAML provider 3) Those duplicate-named users have the scope to access the SSO operator dashboard 4) The vulnerability doesnt appear with LDAP because of chained authentication.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Single_sign-on_for_tanzu Vmware * 1.11.3 (excluding)
Single_sign-on_for_tanzu Vmware 1.12.0 (including) 1.12.4 (excluding)
Single_sign-on_for_tanzu Vmware 1.13.0 (including) 1.13.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

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