CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-5899
High (7.8) in f5 nginx controller. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In NGINX Controller 3.0.0-3.4.0, recovery code required to change a user's 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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-312, CWE-319, CWE-522
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- f5:nginx_controller