CVE-2020-27986

Sonarqube vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

16.2%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

SonarQube 8.4.2.36762 allows remote attackers to discover cleartext SMTP, SVN, and GitLab credentials via the api/settings/values URI. NOTE: reportedly, the vendor's position for SMTP and SVN is "it is the administrator's responsibility to configure it.

Affected vendor

Sonarsource

Affected product

Sonarqube

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical Function
CWE-312 — Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published

2020-10-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 16.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-27986.
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