CVE-2020-5425CWE-287

User Impersonation possible in Tanzu SSO

High · published October 31, 2020

CVSS v3.0
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Single Sign-On for Vmware Tanzu all versions prior to 1.11.3 ,1.12.x versions prior to 1.12.4 and 1.13.x prior to 1.13.1 are vulnerable to user impersonation attack.If two users are logged in to the SSO operator dashboard at the same time, with the same username, from two different identity providers, one can acquire the token of the other and thus operate with their permissions. Note: Foundation may be vulnerable only if: 1) The system zone is set up to use a SAML identity provider 2) There are internal users that have the same username as users in the external SAML provider 3) Those duplicate-named users have the scope to access the SSO operator dashboard 4) The vulnerability doesn't appear with LDAP because of chained authentication.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00727 · 53.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-287 · Improper Authentication
Published
2020-10-31T21:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 31 OCT 21:45Z
    User Impersonation possible in Tanzu SSO
    cvelistv5