CVE-2020-4492

CVSS V2 Low 2.1 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5

Description

IBM Spectrum Scale V5.0.0.0 through V5.0.4.3 and V4.2.0.0 through V4.2.3.21 could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service crashing the kernel by sending a subset of ioctls on the device with invalid arguments. IBM X-Force ID: 181992.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2020-4492

Assigner
psirt@us.ibm.com

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2020-08-31T13:15:10

Last Modified Date
2020-08-31T16:50:01

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-88	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/88.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale::::::::	1	OR	4.2.0.0	4.2.3.21
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale::::::::	1	OR	5.0.0.0	5.0.4.3

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
LOCAL

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
2.1

Severity
LOW

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.1

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
LOW

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
5.5

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
1.8

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/181992	VDB Entry Vendor Advisory
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6324249	Vendor Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-4492
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-4492

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 16:27:35				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 21:43:43	2020-08-31T13:15Z	2020-08-31T13:15:10	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-04 21:43:43		2020-08-31T16:50:01	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-04 21:43:43		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated