Severity

High

Vendor

Pivotal

Description

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs, 2.6.x versions prior to 2.6.18, 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.11, and 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.5, includes a version of PCF Autoscaling that writes database connection properties to its log, including database username and password. A malicious user with access to those logs may gain unauthorized access to the database being used by Autoscaling.

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is high unless otherwise noted.

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.6.x versions prior to 2.6.18
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.11
  • 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.5

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation or upgrade:

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.6.18
  • 2.7.11
  • 2.8.5

References

History

2020-04-09: Initial vulnerability report published.