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CVE-2020-5406

CVE-2020-5406 — PCF Autoscaling logs its database credentials

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.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, pivotal

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

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

pivotal

vmware_tanzu_application_service_for_vms

CVSS base

Unscored

no source published a base score

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)

pivotal

Products (1)

vmware tanzu application service for vms

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-522

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

  • T1552.004Unsecured Credentials: Private Keys
  • T1558.003Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets: Kerberoasting
  • T1543Create or Modify System Process

References

1 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • pivotalevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-522other 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.