# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.7 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 31 Jul 2020
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6p3r-vmr8-vfcg

## 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.

Weakness: CWE-532 (Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File), CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5414?

It affects 2 products.


Products: 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.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-5414 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5414 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: VMware Tanzu Operations Manager. 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-2020-5414/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5414/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5414
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5414
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-5414

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5414/
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