CVE-2020-24566

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-09-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-532

Description

In Octopus Deploy 2020.3.x before 2020.3.4 and 2020.4.x before 2020.4.1, if an authenticated user creates a deployment or runbook process using Azure steps and sets the step's execution location to run on the server/worker, then (under certain circumstances) the account password is exposed in cleartext in the verbose task logs output.

Affected products

Octopus Deploy: from 2020.3 before 2020.3.4 — fixed in 2020.3.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Octopus Deploy 2020.3.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/6563
https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/6564
https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/6563
https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/6564

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