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CVE-2020-15136

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-15136 describes a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in etcd versions prior to 3.4.10 and 3.3.23, affecting products like Fedora and Red Hat etcd. The flaw allows gateway TLS authentication to be bypassed when endpoints are specified via the --endpoints flag, as authentication is only performed for endpoints discovered through DNS SRV records. This could lead to high confidentiality impact and low integrity impact with a CVSS score of 6.5. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.3.0, < 3.3.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:etcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.4.0, < 3.4.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:etcd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0164 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: go.etcd.io/etcdFixed in: 3.3.23
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: go.etcd.io/etcdFixed in: 3.4.10
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 ARMFixed in: 3.5.0-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19204-16823Fixed in: 3.5.0-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 etcd 3.5.0-3 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 3.5.0-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 x64Fixed in: 3.5.0-3
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8Fixed in: openshift4/ose-etcd:v4.8.0-202106152230.p0.git.aefa6bf.assembly.stream
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1Fixed in: etcd-0:3.3.23-1.el8ost
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 (Stein)Fixed in: etcd
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: etcd
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: etcd

Vendor Advisories (4)

goGHSA-wr2v-9rpq-c35qmedium

Etcd Gateway TLS authentication only applies to endpoints detected in DNS SRV records

Jan 31, 2024
microsoft2021-Dec/CVE-2020-15136

CVE-2020-15136

Dec 14, 2021
microsoft2020-Aug/CVE-2020-15136Moderate

Improper authentication in etcd

Aug 11, 2020
redhatCVE-2020-15136Moderate

etcd: no authentication is performed against endpoints provided in the --endpoints flag

Aug 5, 2020

References

github.com / etcd-io/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/op-guide/gateway.md
Broken Link
github.com / etcd-io/etcd/security/advisories/GHSA-wr2v-9rpq-c35q
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L6B6R43Y7M3DCHWK3L3UVGE2K6WWECMP