CVE-2020-4956

Published Feb 15, 2021

Last updated 4 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
psirt@us.ibm.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
4.8
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
1.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
4.8
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
1.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
2.3
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
4.4
Vector string
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-400

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations