octopus CVE Vulnerabilities & Metrics

Focus on octopus vulnerabilities and metrics.

Last updated: 08 Mar 2025, 23:25 UTC

About octopus Security Exposure

This page consolidates all known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) associated with octopus. We track both calendar-based metrics (using fixed periods) and rolling metrics (using gliding windows) to give you a comprehensive view of security trends and risk evolution. Use these insights to assess risk and plan your patching strategy.

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Global CVE Overview

Total octopus CVEs: 74
Earliest CVE date: 17 Jul 2017, 13:18 UTC
Latest CVE date: 14 Dec 2023, 08:15 UTC

Latest CVE reference: CVE-2023-1904

Rolling Stats

30-day Count (Rolling): 0
365-day Count (Rolling): 0

Calendar-based Variation

Calendar-based Variation compares a fixed calendar period (e.g., this month versus the same month last year), while Rolling Growth Rate uses a continuous window (e.g., last 30 days versus the previous 30 days) to capture trends independent of calendar boundaries.

Variations & Growth

Month Variation (Calendar): 0%
Year Variation (Calendar): -100.0%

Month Growth Rate (30-day Rolling): 0.0%
Year Growth Rate (365-day Rolling): -100.0%

Monthly CVE Trends (current vs previous Year)

Annual CVE Trends (Last 20 Years)

Critical octopus CVEs (CVSS ≥ 9) Over 20 Years

CVSS Stats

Average CVSS: 2.65

Max CVSS: 10.0

Critical CVEs (≥9): 2

CVSS Range vs. Count

Range Count
0.0-3.9 39
4.0-6.9 33
7.0-8.9 0
9.0-10.0 2

CVSS Distribution Chart

Top 5 Highest CVSS octopus CVEs

These are the five CVEs with the highest CVSS scores for octopus, sorted by severity first and recency.

All CVEs for octopus

CVE-2023-1904 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 14 Dec 2023, 08:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server it is possible for the OpenID client secret to be logged in clear text during the configuration of Octopus Server.

CVE-2022-2416 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 02 Aug 2023, 06:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible for a low privileged guest user to craft a request that allows enumeration/recon of an environment.

CVE-2022-2346 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 02 Aug 2023, 02:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible for a low privileged guest user to interact with extension endpoints.

CVE-2022-4870 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 18 May 2023, 00:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to discover network details via error message

CVE-2022-4008 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 10 May 2023, 06:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to upload a zipbomb file as a task which results in Denial of Service

CVE-2023-2247 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 02 May 2023, 05:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to unmask variable secrets using the variable preview function

CVE-2022-2507 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 19 Apr 2023, 08:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to render user supplied input into the webpage

CVE-2022-4009 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 16 Mar 2023, 04:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible for a user to introduce code via offline package creation

CVE-2022-2259 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 13 Mar 2023, 05:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible for a user to view Workerpools without being explicitly assigned permissions to view these items

CVE-2022-2258 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 13 Mar 2023, 05:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible for a user to view Tagsets without being explicitly assigned permissions to view these items

CVE-2022-2883 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 22 Feb 2023, 01:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to upload a zipbomb file as a task which results in Denial of Service

CVE-2022-4898 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 31 Jan 2023, 04:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server the help sidebar can be customized to include a Cross-Site Scripting payload in the support link. This was initially resolved in advisory 2022-07 however it was identified that the fix could be bypassed in certain circumstances. A different approach was taken to prevent the possibility of the support link being susceptible to XSS

CVE-2022-3614 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 03 Jan 2023, 02:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy users of certain browsers using AD to sign-in to Octopus Server were able to bypass authentication checks and be redirected to the configured redirect url without any validation.

CVE-2022-3460 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 03 Jan 2023, 00:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible for certain types of sensitive variables to inadvertently become unmasked when viewed in variable preview.

CVE-2022-2721 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 25 Nov 2022, 05:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server it is possible for target discovery to print certain values marked as sensitive to log files in plaint-text in when verbose logging is enabled.

CVE-2022-2572 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 01 Nov 2022, 02:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server where access is managed by an external authentication provider, it was possible that the API key/keys of a disabled/deleted user were still valid after the access was revoked.

CVE-2022-2782 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 27 Oct 2022, 10:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server it is possible for a session token to be valid indefinitely due to improper validation of the session token parameters.

CVE-2022-2508 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 27 Oct 2022, 10:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server it is possible to reveal the existence of resources in a space that the user does not have access to due to verbose error messaging.

CVE-2022-2780 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 14 Oct 2022, 07:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server it is possible to use the Git Connectivity test function on the VCS project to initiate an SMB request resulting in the potential for an NTLM relay attack.

CVE-2022-2828 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 13 Oct 2022, 05:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server it is possible to reveal information about teams via the API due to an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability

CVE-2022-2720 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 12 Oct 2022, 07:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server it was identified that when a sensitive value is a substring of another value, sensitive value masking will only partially work.

CVE-2022-2783 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 06 Oct 2022, 18:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server it was identified that a session cookie could be used as the CSRF token

CVE-2022-2781 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 06 Oct 2022, 18:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server it was identified that the same encryption process was used for both encrypting session cookies and variables.

CVE-2022-2778 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 30 Sep 2022, 04:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to bypass rate limiting on login using null bytes.

CVE-2022-2760 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 28 Sep 2022, 12:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to reveal the Space ID of spaces that the user does not have access to view in an error message when a resource is part of another Space.

CVE-2022-2528 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 09 Sep 2022, 08:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to upload a package to built-in feed with insufficient permissions after re-indexing packages.

CVE-2022-2075 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 19 Aug 2022, 09:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to perform a Regex Denial of Service targeting the build information request validation.

CVE-2022-2074 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 19 Aug 2022, 09:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to perform a Regex Denial of Service using the Variable Project Template.

CVE-2022-2049 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 19 Aug 2022, 09:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to perform a Regex Denial of Service via the package upload function.

CVE-2022-1901 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 19 Aug 2022, 08:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to unmask sensitive variables by using variable preview.

CVE-2022-30532 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 19 Jul 2022, 07:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy, there is no logging of changes to artifacts within Octopus Deploy.

CVE-2022-29890 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 15 Jul 2022, 08:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server the help sidebar can be customized to include a Cross-Site Scripting payload in the support link.

CVE-2022-1881 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 0 15 Jul 2022, 08:15 UTC

In affected versions of Octopus Server an Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability exists where it is possible for a user to download Project Exports from a Project they do not have permissions to access. This vulnerability only impacts projects within the same Space.

CVE-2022-1670 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 19 May 2022, 05:15 UTC

When generating a user invitation code in Octopus Server, the validity of this code can be set for a specific number of users. It was possible to bypass this restriction of validity to create extra user accounts above the initial number of invited users.

CVE-2022-23184 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 5.8 07 Feb 2022, 03:15 UTC

In affected Octopus Server versions when the server HTTP and HTTPS bindings are configured to localhost, Octopus Server will allow open redirects.

CVE-2021-31821 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 2.1 19 Jan 2022, 06:15 UTC

When the Windows Tentacle docker image starts up it logs all the commands that it runs along with the arguments, which writes the Octopus Server API key in plaintext. This does not affect the Linux Docker image

CVE-2021-31822 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.6 24 Nov 2021, 16:15 UTC

When Octopus Tentacle is installed on a Linux operating system, the systemd service file permissions are misconfigured. This could lead to a local unprivileged user modifying the contents of the systemd service file to gain privileged access.

CVE-2021-26557 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.4 07 Oct 2021, 01:15 UTC

When Octopus Tentacle is installed using a custom folder location, folder ACLs are not set correctly and could lead to an unprivileged user using DLL side-loading to gain privileged access.

CVE-2021-26556 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.4 07 Oct 2021, 01:15 UTC

When Octopus Server is installed using a custom folder location, folder ACLs are not set correctly and could lead to an unprivileged user using DLL side-loading to gain privileged access.

CVE-2021-31819 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 10.0 22 Sep 2021, 02:15 UTC

In Halibut versions prior to 4.4.7 there is a deserialisation vulnerability that could allow remote code execution on systems that already trust each other based on certificate verification.

CVE-2021-31820 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 18 Aug 2021, 11:15 UTC

In Octopus Server after version 2018.8.2 if the Octopus Server Web Request Proxy is configured with authentication, the password is shown in plaintext in the UI.

CVE-2021-21270 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 2.1 22 Jan 2021, 18:15 UTC

OctopusDSC is a PowerShell module with DSC resources that can be used to install and configure an Octopus Deploy Server and Tentacle agent. In OctopusDSC version 4.0.977 and earlier a customer API key used to connect to Octopus Server is exposed via logging in plaintext. This vulnerability is patched in version 4.0.1002.

CVE-2020-26161 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 5.8 26 Oct 2020, 18:15 UTC

In Octopus Deploy through 2020.4.2, an attacker could redirect users to an external site via a modified HTTP Host header.

CVE-2020-27155 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 22 Oct 2020, 17:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in Octopus Deploy through 2020.4.4. If enabled, the websocket endpoint may allow an untrusted tentacle host to present itself as a trusted one.

CVE-2020-25825 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 12 Oct 2020, 17:15 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 3.1.0 to 2020.4.0, certain scripts can reveal sensitive information to the user in the task logs.

CVE-2020-16197 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 25 Aug 2020, 19:15 UTC

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.

CVE-2020-14470 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 19 Jun 2020, 16:15 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 2018.8.0 through 2019.x before 2019.12.2, an authenticated user with could trigger a deployment that leaks the Helm Chart repository password.

CVE-2020-12286 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 28 Apr 2020, 07:15 UTC

In Octopus Deploy before 2019.12.9 and 2020 before 2020.1.12, the TaskView permission is not scoped to any dimension. For example, a scoped user who is scoped to only one tenant can view server tasks scoped to any other tenant.

CVE-2020-10678 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 6.5 19 Mar 2020, 15:15 UTC

In Octopus Deploy before 2020.1.5, for customers running on-premises Active Directory linked to their Octopus server, an authenticated user can leverage a bug to escalate privileges.

CVE-2019-19376 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 28 Nov 2019, 17:15 UTC

In Octopus Deploy before 2019.10.6, an authenticated user with TeamEdit permission could send a malformed Team API request that bypasses input validation and causes an application level denial of service condition. (The fix for this was also backported to LTS 2019.9.8 and LTS 2019.6.14.)

CVE-2019-19375 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 28 Nov 2019, 17:15 UTC

In Octopus Deploy before 2019.10.7, in a configuration where SSL offloading is enabled, the CSRF cookie was sometimes sent without the secure attribute. (The fix for this was backported to LTS versions 2019.6.14 and 2019.9.8.)

CVE-2019-19084 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 18 Nov 2019, 16:15 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 3.3.0 through 2019.10.4, an authenticated user with PackagePush permission to upload packages could upload a maliciously crafted package, triggering an exception that exposes underlying operating system details.

CVE-2019-15698 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 27 Aug 2019, 17:15 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 2019.7.3 through 2019.7.9, in certain circumstances, an authenticated user with VariableView permissions could view sensitive values. This is fixed in 2019.7.10.

CVE-2019-15508 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 3.5 23 Aug 2019, 06:15 UTC

In Octopus Tentacle versions 3.0.8 to 5.0.0, when a web request proxy is configured, an authenticated user (in certain limited OctopusPrintVariables circumstances) could trigger a deployment that writes the web request proxy password to the deployment log in cleartext. This is fixed in 5.0.1. The fix was back-ported to 4.0.7.

CVE-2019-14525 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 05 Aug 2019, 12:15 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 2019.4.0 through 2019.6.x before 2019.6.6, and 2019.7.x before 2019.7.6, an authenticated system administrator is able to view sensitive values by visiting a server configuration page or making an API call.

CVE-2019-14268 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 25 Jul 2019, 16:15 UTC

In Octopus Deploy versions 3.0.19 to 2019.7.2, when a web request proxy is configured, an authenticated user (in certain limited circumstances) could trigger a deployment that writes the web request proxy password to the deployment log in cleartext. This is fixed in 2019.7.3. The fix was back-ported to LTS 2019.6.5 as well as LTS 2019.3.7.

CVE-2019-11632 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 5.5 01 May 2019, 14:29 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 2019.1.0 through 2019.3.1 and 2019.4.0 through 2019.4.5, an authenticated user with the VariableViewUnscoped or VariableEditUnscoped permission scoped to a specific project could view or edit unscoped variables from a different project. (These permissions are only used in custom User Roles and do not affect built in User Roles.)

CVE-2019-8944 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 20 Feb 2019, 03:29 UTC

An Information Exposure issue in the Terraform deployment step in Octopus Deploy before 2019.1.8 (and before 2018.10.4 LTS) allows remote authenticated users to view sensitive Terraform output variables via log files.

CVE-2018-18850 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 9.0 31 Oct 2018, 03:29 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 2018.8.0 through 2018.9.x before 2018.9.1, an authenticated user with permission to modify deployment processes could upload a maliciously crafted YAML configuration, potentially allowing for remote execution of arbitrary code, running in the same context as the Octopus Server (for self-hosted installations by default, SYSTEM).

CVE-2018-12884 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 26 Jun 2018, 11:29 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 3.0 onwards (before 2018.6.7), an authenticated user with incorrect permissions may be able to create Accounts under the Infrastructure menu.

CVE-2018-12089 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 3.5 11 Jun 2018, 10:29 UTC

In Octopus Deploy version 2018.5.1 to 2018.5.7, a user with Task View is able to view a password for a Service Fabric Cluster, when the Service Fabric Cluster target is configured in Azure Active Directory security mode and a deployment is executed with OctopusPrintVariables set to True. This is fixed in 2018.6.0.

CVE-2018-11320 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 21 May 2018, 14:29 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 2018.4.4 through 2018.5.1, Octopus variables that are sourced from the target do not have sensitive values obfuscated in the deployment logs.

CVE-2018-10581 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 5.5 01 May 2018, 13:29 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 3.4.x before 2018.4.7, an authenticated user is able to view/update/save variable values within the Tenant Variables area for Environments that do not exist within their associated Team scoping. This occurs in situations where this authenticated user also belongs to multiple teams, where one of the Teams has the VariableEdit permission or VariableView permissions for the Environment.

CVE-2018-10550 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 30 Apr 2018, 04:29 UTC

In Octopus Deploy before 2018.4.7, target and tenant tag variable scopes were not checked against the list of tenants the user has access to.

CVE-2018-9039 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 27 Mar 2018, 03:29 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 2.0 and later before 2018.3.7, an authenticated user, with variable edit permissions, can scope some variables to targets greater than their permissions should allow. In other words, they can see machines beyond their team's scoped environments.

CVE-2018-5706 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 6.5 16 Jan 2018, 10:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in Octopus Deploy before 4.1.9. Any user with user editing permissions can modify teams to give themselves Administer System permissions even if they didn't have them, as demonstrated by use of the RoleEdit or TeamEdit permission.

CVE-2018-4862 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 6.5 03 Jan 2018, 09:29 UTC

In Octopus Deploy versions 3.2.11 - 4.1.5 (fixed in 4.1.6), an authenticated user with ProcessEdit permission could reference an Azure account in such a way as to bypass the scoping restrictions, resulting in a potential escalation of privileges.

CVE-2017-17665 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 6.5 13 Dec 2017, 20:29 UTC

In Octopus Deploy before 4.1.3, the machine update process doesn't check that the user has access to all environments. This allows an access-control bypass because the set of environments to which a machine is scoped may include environments in which the user lacks access.

CVE-2017-16810 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 3.5 14 Nov 2017, 03:29 UTC

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the All Variables tab in Octopus Deploy 3.4.0-3.13.6 (fixed in 3.13.7) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Variable Set Name parameter.

CVE-2017-16801 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 3.5 13 Nov 2017, 09:29 UTC

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Octopus Deploy 3.7.0-3.17.13 (fixed in 3.17.14) allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Step Template Name parameter.

CVE-2017-15611 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 19 Oct 2017, 08:29 UTC

In Octopus before 3.17.7, an authenticated user who was explicitly granted the permission to invite new users (aka UserInvite) can invite users to teams with escalated privileges.

CVE-2017-15610 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 4.0 19 Oct 2017, 08:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in Octopus before 3.17.7. When the special Guest user account is granted the CertificateExportPrivateKey permission, and Guest Access is enabled for the Octopus Server, an attacker can sign in as the Guest account and export Certificates managed by Octopus, including the private key.

CVE-2017-15609 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 19 Oct 2017, 08:29 UTC

Octopus before 3.17.7 allows attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext information by reading a variable JSON file in certain situations involving Offline Drop Targets.

CVE-2017-11348 octopus vulnerability CVSS: 6.3 17 Jul 2017, 13:18 UTC

In Octopus Deploy 3.x before 3.15.4, an authenticated user with PackagePush permission to upload packages could upload a maliciously crafted NuGet package, potentially overwriting other packages or modifying system files. This is a directory traversal in the PackageId value.