Security Advisory

CVE-2020-5899

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-07-01 14:01:58
Last updated 2024-08-04 08:47:40
Assigner f5
State PUBLISHED

Description

In NGINX Controller 3.0.0-3.4.0, recovery code required to change a users password is transmitted and stored in the database in plain text, which allows an attacker who can intercept the database connection or have read access to the database, to request a password reset using the email address of another registered user then retrieve the recovery code.