CVE-2020-4956

State
Published
Severity
4.8 Medium
Published
Feb 15, 2021
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Dec 30, 2019

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.04.8 MediumCVSS:3.0/C:N/I:N/PR:L/AV:A/UI:N/A:H/S:U/AC:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cibm

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Spectrum Protect Operations CenterIBM
  • 8.1Affected
  • 7.1Affected
  • 8.1.10.100Affected
  • 7.1.12Affected

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