CVE detail
CVE-2023-20891
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.
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Buzz score components · mention 6.9 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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Evidence
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- VMware addressed an information disclosure flaw in VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs and Isolation SegmentSecurity Affairs
VMware fixed an information disclosure flaw in VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs and Isolation Segment that exposed CF API admin credentials in audit logs. VMware has addressed an information disclosure vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20891 (CVSSv3 score 6.5), in VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS for VMs) and Isolation Segment that exposed logged credentials […]
newssecurityaffairs.comJul 25, 2023, 6:26 PM
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