Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 26, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-20891
CVE-2023-20891
Description
The VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs and Isolation Segment contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to the logging of credentials in hex encoding in platform system audit logs. A malicious non-admin user who has access to the platform system audit logs can access hex encoded CF API admin credentials and can push new malicious versions of an application. In a default deployment non-admin users do not have access to the platform system audit logs.
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Affected products
6cpe:2.3:a:vmware:isolation_segment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:vmware:isolation_segment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=2.11.0,<2.11.35
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 4.0.x
- cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tanzu_application_service_for_virtual_machines:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Range: >=2.11.0,<2.11.42
(expand)+ 1 more
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 4.0.x
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References
1- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0016.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
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