CVE-2020-5866 Information disclosure in NGINX Controller

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

An attacker with local access can view sensitive data passed as command-line arguments in the optional helper.sh script of NGINX Controller.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-5866?

CVE-2020-5866 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NGINX Controller, published on 23 Apr 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In versions of NGINX Controller prior to 3.3.0, the helper.sh script, which is used optionally in NGINX Controller to change settings, uses sensitive items as command-line arguments.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5866?

It affects 1 product.

Products include F5 Nginx Controller.

How do I fix CVE-2020-5866?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5866 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-5866 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5866 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-28pm-98wm-6937.

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