Spoofing attack in CF Deployment and Routing Release - CVE-2020-5401
Published: February 25, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU25577
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5401
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Cloud Foundry Foundation
Affected software:
CF Deployment
Routing Release
CF Deployment
Routing Release
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data in GoRouter. A remote attacker can spoof page content, send invalid headers and cause caching layers to reject subsequent legitimate clients trying to access the app.
How to mitigate CVE-2020-5401
Install updates from vendor's website.