CVE-2020-4207
Published Jan 28, 2020
Last updated 5 years ago
Overview
- Description
- IBM Watson IoT Message Gateway 2.0.0.x, 5.0.0.0, 5.0.0.1, and 5.0.0.2 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when handling a failed HTTP request with specific content in the headers. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 174972.
- Source
- psirt@us.ibm.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- CRITICAL
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 9.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- CRITICAL
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-120
Configurations
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