UAA password may appear in BOSH System Metrics Server process arguments

published 2020-10-02 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-26590

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 60%
public exploits: 0; none known

BOSH System Metrics Server releases prior to 0.1.0 exposed the UAA password as a flag to a process running on the BOSH director. It exposed the password to any user or process with access to the same VM (through ps or looking at process details).

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Cloud Foundry BOSH System Metrics Server 0.1.0

Exploit prediction

0.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Cloud Foundry BOSH System Metrics Server

Classification

Weakness

CWE-214 Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information
CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

cloudfoundry.org /blog/cve-2020-5422
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-5422
NVD CVE-2020-5422

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Summary