What is CVE-2020-16197?

CVE-2020-16197 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Octopus Server, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-08-25.

How severe is CVE-2020-16197?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Octopus Server

CVE-2020-16197

An issue was discovered in Octopus Deploy 3.4. A deployment target can be configured with an Account or Certificate that is outside the scope of the deployment target. An authorised user can potentially use a certificate that they are not in scope to use. An authorised user is also able to obtain certificate metadata by associating a certificate with certain resources that should fail scope validation.

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

EPSS: 0.005 (42.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Octopus Octopus_server — versions 3.4.0
Octopus Server — versions 3.4.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-16197?: CVE-2020-16197 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Octopus Server, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-08-25.
How severe is CVE-2020-16197?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.