What is CVE-2023-20881?

CVE-2023-20881 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cloudfoundry Capi-release, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2023-05-19.

How severe is CVE-2023-20881?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Cloudfoundry Capi-release

CVE-2023-20881

Cloud foundry instances having CAPI version between 1.140 and 1.152.0 along with loggregator-agent v7+ may override other users syslog drain credentials if they're aware of the client certificate used for that syslog drain. This applies ev…

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

EPSS: 0.004 (28.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Cloudfoundry Capi-release
Cloudfoundry Cf-deployment
Cloudfoundry Loggregator-agent
N/a Cloud Controller Api — versions Cloud Foundry cloud controller API versions between 1.140 and 1.152.0 and loggregator-agent v7+

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

security@vmware.com (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-20881?: CVE-2023-20881 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cloudfoundry Capi-release, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2023-05-19.
How severe is CVE-2023-20881?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.