UAA password may appear in BOSH System Metrics Server process arguments
CVE-2020-5422

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Cloud Foundry

Status
Bosh System Metrics Server
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 October 2020

What is CVE-2020-5422?

BOSH System Metrics Server releases prior to 0.1.0 exposed the UAA password as a flag to a process running on the BOSH director. It exposed the password to any user or process with access to the same VM (through ps or looking at process details).

Affected Version(s)

BOSH System Metrics Server All < 0.1.0

References

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2020-5422
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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