CVE-2020-4956 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

4.8