CVE-2020-4956

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
IBMSpectrum Protect Operations Center8.1affected
IBMSpectrum Protect Operations Center7.1affected
IBMSpectrum Protect Operations Center8.1.10.100affected
IBMSpectrum Protect Operations Center7.1.12affected

Weaknesses

  • Denial of Service

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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