CVE-2020-5414 App Autoscaler logs credentials
Authenticated BOSH Director users can access logs containing unredacted UAA admin and broker credentials, enabling administrative access and service modification.
- 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-2020-5414?
CVE-2020-5414 is a medium-severity vulnerability in VMware Tanzu Operations Manager, published on 31 Jul 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.19, 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.13, and 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.7) contains an App Autoscaler that logs the UAA admin password. This credential is redacted on VMware Tanzu Operations Manager; however, the unredacted logs are available to authenticated users of the BOSH Director. This credential would grant administrative privileges to a malicious user. The same versions of App Autoscaler also log the App Autoscaler Broker password. Prior to newer versions of Operations Manager, this credential was not redacted from logs. This credential allows a malicious user to create, delete, and modify App Autoscaler services instances. Operations Manager started redacting this credential from logs as of its versions 2.7.15, 2.8.6, and 2.9.1. Note that these logs are typically only visible to foundation administrators and operators.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5414?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Vmware Operations Manager, Vmware Tanzu Application Service for Virtual Machines.
How do I fix CVE-2020-5414?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5414 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-5414 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5414 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6p3r-vmr8-vfcg.