CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2020-15370 — Broadcom Fabric Operating System security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

Brocade Fabric OS versions before Brocade Fabric OS v7.4.2g could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to view a user password in cleartext. The vulnerability is due to incorrectly logging the user password in log files.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2020-09-25
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-532

Affected products

  • broadcom / fabric_operating_system

Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

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