CVE-2020-5425

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-5425
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-31 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-11-17 18:33:00 UTC
DescriptionSingle 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-287

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vmware Single Sign-on For Tanzu All All All All
Application Vmware Single Sign-on For Tanzu All All All All

References

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CVE-2020-5425: User Impersonation possible in Tanzu SSO | Security | VMware Tanzu CONFIRM tanzu.vmware.com Vendor Advisory
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