CVE-2020-5425 HIGH

CVE-2020-5425: User Impersonation possible in Tanzu SSO

Vendor Vmware Tanzu
Product Single Sign-On for VMware Tanzu
Weakness CWE-287 · Improper authentication
Published October 31, 2020
Last update September 17, 2024

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 31, 2020 CVE published
September 17, 2024 Record updated