What is CVE-2020-5406?

CVE-2020-5406 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pivotal Vmware Tanzu Application Service For Vms, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-04-10.

How severe is CVE-2020-5406?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Pivotal Vmware Tanzu Application Service For Vms

CVE-2020-5406

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs, 2.6.x versions prior to 2.6.18, 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.11, and 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.5, includes a version of PCF Autoscaling that writes database connection properties to its log, including database username and password. A malicious user with access to those logs may gain unauthorized access to the database being used by Autoscaling.

EPSS: 0.010 (59.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Pivotal Vmware Tanzu Application Service For Vms — versions 2.8.x, 2.7.x, 2.6.x
Vmware Tanzu_application_service_for_vms

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

security@pivotal.io (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-5406?: CVE-2020-5406 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pivotal Vmware Tanzu Application Service For Vms, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-04-10.
How severe is CVE-2020-5406?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.