CVE-2020-5414App Autoscaler logs credentials
- 5.7MediumCVSS base score
- 0.71%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 46% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.19, 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.13, and 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.7) contains an App Autoscaler that logs the UAA admin password. This credential is redacted on VMware Tanzu Operations Manager; however, the unredacted logs are available to authenticated users of the BOSH Director. This credential would grant administrative privileges to a malicious user. The same versions of App Autoscaler also log the App Autoscaler Broker password. Prior to newer versions of Operations Manager, this credential was not redacted from logs. This credential allows a malicious user to create, delete, and modify App Autoscaler services instances. Operations Manager started redacting this credential from logs as of its versions 2.7.15, 2.8.6, and 2.9.1. Note that these logs are typically only visible to foundation administrators and operators.
Timeline
ID reserved
By pivotal
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| pivotalCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.71% · top 46% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.7.
Affected products
VMware Tanzu · PCF Autoscaling
- affected All – < v232
VMware Tanzu · Operations Manager
- affected 2.7 – < 2.7.15
- affected 2.8 – < 2.8.6
- affected 2.9 – < 2.9.1
VMware Tanzu · VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
- affected 2.9.x – < 2.9.7
- affected 2.7.x – < 2.7.19
- affected 2.8.x – < 2.8.13
References
References1
- https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2020-5414 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-26584 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-5414)Record last updated .