CVE-2020-5895 Misconfiguration in NGINX Controller
Local attackers can cause a denial of service in NGINX Controller by writing malformed data to a socket with insecure permissions.
- 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-2020-5895?
CVE-2020-5895 is a high-severity vulnerability in NGINX Controller, published on 7 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
On NGINX Controller versions 3.1.0-3.3.0, AVRD uses world-readable and world-writable permissions on its socket, which allows processes or users on the local system to write arbitrary data into the socket. A local system attacker can make AVRD segmentation fault (SIGSEGV) by writing malformed messages to the socket.
Weakness: CWE-732
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5895?
It affects 1 product.
Products include F5 Nginx Controller.
How do I fix CVE-2020-5895?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5895 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-5895 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5895 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in NGINX Controller
Sources
Also known as GHSA-359f-64m6-vf7p.