CVE-2020-5406

PCF Autoscaling logs its database credentials

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 10, 2020
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Jan 3, 2020

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMsPivotal	2.8.x to before 2.8.5Affected 2.7.x to before 2.7.11Affected 2.6.x to before 2.6.18Affected

References

https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2020-5406

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