CVE-2020-6939
Tableau Server installations configured with Site-Specific SAML that allows the APIs to be used by unauthenticated users. If exploited,…
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Description
Tableau Server installations configured with Site-Specific SAML that allows the APIs to be used by unauthenticated users. If exploited, this could allow a malicious user to configure Site-Specific SAML settings and could lead to account takeover for users of that site. Tableau Server versions affected on both Windows and Linux are: 2018.2 through 2018.2.27, 2018.3 through 2018.3.24, 2019.1 through 2019.1.22, 2019.2 through 2019.2.18, 2019.3 through 2019.3.14, 2019.4 through 2019.4.13, 2020.1 through 2020.1.10, 2020.2 through 2020.2.7, and 2020.3 through 2020.3.2.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Salesforce
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- Incorrect Access Control
Affected products
Tableau Server
- affected versions affected on both Windows and Linux are: 2018.2 through 2018.2.27
- affected 2018.3 through 2018.3.24
- affected 2019.1 through 2019.1.22
- affected 2019.2 through 2019.2.18
- affected 2019.3 through 2019.3.14
- affected 2019.4 through 2019.4.13
- affected 2020.1 through 2020.1.10
- affected 2020.2 through 2020.2.7
- affected 2020.3 through 2020.3.2
References (1)
- https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000355686&type=1&mode=1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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