CVE-2023-20891
MEDIUMDescription
The VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs and Isolation Segment contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to the logging of credentials in hex encoding in platform system audit logs. A malicious non-admin user who has access to the platform system audit logs can access hex encoded CF API admin credentials and can push new malicious versions of an application. In a default deployment non-admin users do not have access to the platform system audit logs.
How to fix
Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Exploit Intelligence
Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 41% of all known CVEs.
References
Related Vulnerabilities
Other CWE-532 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all
| CVE | Severity | CVSS | EPSS | Exploited | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2019-1622 | Medium | 5.3 | 79% | - | - |
| CVE-2020-35234 | High | 7.5 | 63% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2023-43261 | High | 7.5 | 60% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2024-20440 | High | 7.5 | 51% | - | - |
| CVE-2018-3609 | High | 8.1 | 22% | - | - |
| CVE-2018-8719 | Medium | 5.3 | 16% | - | - |
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