CVE-2020-7196: HP Bluedata Epic

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The HPE BlueData EPIC Software Platform version 4.0 and HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 5.0 use an insecure method of handling sensitive Kerberos passwords that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. Specifically, they display the kdc_admin_password in the source file of the url "/bdswebui/assignusers/".

Affected products

• HP Bluedata Epic: up to and including 4.0
• HP Ezmeral Container Platform: version 5.0 only

Published 2020-10-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.