CVE-2020-4956

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.

Affected

IBM · Spectrum Protect Operations Center

CVSS v3.1 NVD

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

CVSS v3.0 IBM

4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

2.3 LOWAV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 39th percentile

Published

2021-02-15

Updated

2024-09-17

Exploit collections (1)

• ibm/spectrum_protect/ibm_spoc_DebugRPC_dos_CVE-2020-4956.pytenable/poc

Security advisories

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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry