Vulnerability CVE-2020-4956


Published: 2021-02-15

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.

Type:

CWE-400

(Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.3/10
2.9/10
4.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Adjacent network
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
IBM -> Spectrum protect operations center 

 References:
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192156
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6404966

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