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Vulnerability CVE-2021-20501
Published: 2021-04-21
| Description: |
IBM i 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4 SMTP allows a network attacker to send emails to non-existent local-domain recipients to the SMTP server, caused by using a non-default configuration. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume unnecessary network bandwidth and disk space, and allow remote attackers to send spam email. IBM X-Force ID: 198056. |
Type:
CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))
CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
6.4/10 |
4.9/10 |
10/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Remote |
Low |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
None |
Partial |
Partial |
Affected software |
IBM
-> I  |
References: |
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/198056
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6445505
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