CVE-2021-20505

State
Published
Severity
4.4 Medium
Published
Jul 29, 2021
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Dec 17, 2020

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Description

The PowerVM Logical Partition Mobility(LPM) (PowerVM Hypervisor FW920, FW930, FW940, and FW950) encryption key exchange protocol can be compromised. If an attacker has the ability to capture encrypted LPM network traffic and is able to gain service access to the FSP they can use this information to perform a series of PowerVM service procedures to decrypt the captured migration traffic IBM X-Force ID: 198232

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
PowerVM HypervisorIBM
  • FW920Affected
  • FW930Affected
  • FW940Affected
  • FW950Affected

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