Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness Affecting etcd package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-ETCD-9847567
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed5 Aug 2020

Introduced: 5 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-15115  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-305  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 etcd.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream etcd package and not the etcd package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10 does not perform any password length validation, which allows for very short passwords, such as those with a length of one. This may allow an attacker to guess or brute-force users' passwords with little computational effort.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1