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medium 6.3

CVE-2019-3782 json

CredHub CLI writes environment variable credentials to disk

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-13413

cvss
6.3
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cloud Foundry CredHub CLI, versions prior to 2.2.1, inadvertently writes authentication credentials provided via environment variables to its persistent config file. A local authenticated malicious user with access to the CredHub CLI config file can use these credentials to retrieve and modify credentials stored in CredHub that are authorized to the targeted user.

Patch / fix

  • Cloud Foundry CredHub CLI 2.2.1

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Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Cloud Foundry CredHub CLI

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Sources

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