CVE-2020-12144 The certificate used to identify the Silver Peak Cloud Portal to EdgeConnect devices is not validated
Attackers can bypass TLS certificate validation to connect EdgeConnect devices to malicious portals, compromising secure communication channels.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-12144?
CVE-2020-12144 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Silver Peak Systems, Inc. 1. Unity EdgeConnect, NX, VX 2. Unity Orchestrator 3. EdgeConnect in AWS, Azure, GCP, published on 5 May 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The certificate used to identify the Silver Peak Cloud Portal to EdgeConnect devices is not validated. This makes it possible for someone to establish a TLS connection from EdgeConnect to an untrusted portal.
Weakness: CWE-295
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12144?
It affects 24 products.
Products include Silver-Peak Nx-1000 Firmware, Silver-Peak Nx-10k Firmware, Silver-Peak Nx-11k Firmware, Silver-Peak Nx-2000 Firmware, Silver-Peak Nx-3000 Firmware, Silver-Peak Nx-5000 Firmware and 18 more.
How do I fix CVE-2020-12144?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-12144 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-12144 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12144 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Silver Peak Systems, Inc. 1. Unity EdgeConnect, NX, VX 2. Unity Orchestrator 3. EdgeConnect in AWS, Azure, GCP
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7qwj-rq2v-gm66.