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CVE-2020-4956

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
Publication date:
15/02/2021
Last modified:
17/02/2021

Description

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 7.1 and 8.1 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a RPC that allows certain cache values to be set and dumped to a file. By setting a grossly large cache value and dumping that cached value to a file multiple times, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the consumption of all memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 192156.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.80 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
4.80
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vector 2.0
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.30 LOW
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
2.30
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_operations_center:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 7.1.0.000 (including) 7.1.13.000 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_operations_center:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 8.1.0.000 (including) 8.1.10.200 (excluding)

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