CVE-2020-15115
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10 does not perform any password length validation, which allows for very short passwords, such as those with a length of one. This may allow an attacker to guess or brute-force users' passwords with little computational effort.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.3.25+dfsg-5 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.3.25+dfsg-5 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.3.25+dfsg-5 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.3.25+dfsg-5 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.3.25+dfsg-5 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | go.etcd.io/etcd/client/v3 | >=3.4.0,<3.4.10 | 3.4.10 |
| Go | go.etcd.io/etcd/client/v3 | <3.3.23 | 3.3.23 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15115.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15115
- https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/security/advisories/GHSA-4993-m7g5-r9hh
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15115
- https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L6B6R43Y7M3DCHWK3L3UVGE2K6WWECMP
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.