CVE-2020-12145 — Silver Peak Unity OrchestratorTM authentication can be subverted through manipulation of HTTP headers.

Silver Peak Unity Orchestrator versions prior to 8.9.11+, 8.10.11+, or 9.0.1+ uses HTTP headers to authenticate REST API calls from localhost. This makes it possible to log in to Orchestrator by introducing an HTTP HOST header set to 127.0.0.1 or localhost. Orchestrator instances that are hosted by customers –on-premise or in a public cloud provider –are affected by this vulnerability.

Published Nov 5, 2020Updated Sep 16, 2024Sources: cvelistV5, Silver Peak

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

silver peak systems

unity_orchestrator

CVSS base

6.6

MEDIUM

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

silver peak systems

Products (1)

unity orchestrator

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

Score	Version	Severity	Expl.	Impact	Source
6.6	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM	—	—	cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

CWE-287

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

T1548Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
T1040Network Sniffing
T1185Browser Session Hijacking

References

1 on the record

www.silver-peak.com/support/user-documentation/security-advisories
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Elsewhere on this site

silver peak systemsevery CVE for this vendor
CWE-287other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.