# CVE-2020-12145: Silver Peak Unity OrchestratorTM authentication can be subverted through manipulation of HTTP headers.

> Attackers can bypass authentication and gain administrative access to Silver Peak Unity Orchestrator by spoofing HTTP headers to appear as localhost.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Nov 2020
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-q4mf-j4qj-96f2

## What is CVE-2020-12145?

CVE-2020-12145 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Unity Orchestrator, published on 5 Nov 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Silver Peak Unity Orchestrator versions prior to 8.9.11+, 8.10.11+, or 9.0.1+ uses HTTP headers to authenticate REST API calls from localhost. This makes it possible to log in to Orchestrator by introducing an HTTP HOST header set to 127.0.0.1 or localhost. Orchestrator instances that are hosted by customers –on-premise or in a public cloud provider –are affected by this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-287 (Improper Authentication)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12145?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Silver-Peak Unity Orchestrator.

## How do I fix CVE-2020-12145?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-12145 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2020-12145 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12145 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Unity Orchestrator

- [CVE-2020-12146](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12146/): Silver Peak Unity OrchestratorTM subject to path traversal. (medium 6.6)
- [CVE-2020-12147](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12147/): Unauthorized queries against the Silver Peak Unity OrchestratorTM MySQL database. (medium 6.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-12145 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2020-12145 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Unity Orchestrator, published on 5 Nov 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12145 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Unity Orchestrator. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12145/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12145/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12145
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12145
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-12145

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12145/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.