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CVE-2020-4956

Published: Feb 15, 2021

Modified: Sep 17, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

4.8

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

IBM

Spectrum Protect Operations Center

affected
8.1
affected
7.1
affected
8.1.10.100
affected
7.1.12

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/C:N/I:N/PR:L/AV:A/UI:N/A:H/S:U/AC:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Privileges Required

Low

Attack Vector

Adjacent

User Interaction

None

Availability

High

Scope

Unchanged

Attack Complexity

High

References

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