CVE-2020-27986 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting SonarQube versions up to 8.4.2.36762, allowing remote attackers to discover cleartext SMTP, SVN, and GitLab credentials through the api/settings/values URI. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability presents a significant risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high confidentiality impact, potentially exposing sensitive credentials without requiring authentication. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public Metasploit modules, Nuclei templates exist for an authentication bypass, and the vulnerability has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.4.2.36762CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sonarsource:sonarqube:8.4.2.36762:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.