CVE-2020-16197

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-08-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-295

Description

An issue was discovered in Octopus Deploy 3.4. A deployment target can be configured with an Account or Certificate that is outside the scope of the deployment target. An authorised user can potentially use a certificate that they are not in scope to use. An authorised user is also able to obtain certificate metadata by associating a certificate with certain resources that should fail scope validation.

Affected products

Octopus Deploy Octopus Server: 3.4.0
Octopus Server: 3.4.0

References

https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/6529
https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/6530
https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/6531
https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/6529
https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/6530
https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/6531

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