CVE-2021-20505

Summary

The PowerVM Logical Partition Mobility(LPM) (PowerVM Hypervisor FW920, FW930, FW940, and FW950) encryption key exchange protocol can be compromised. If an attacker has the ability to capture encrypted LPM network traffic and is able to gain service access to the FSP they can use this information to perform a series of PowerVM service procedures to decrypt the captured migration traffic IBM X-Force ID: 198232

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
IBMPowerVM HypervisorFW920affected
IBMPowerVM HypervisorFW930affected
IBMPowerVM HypervisorFW940affected
IBMPowerVM HypervisorFW950affected

Weaknesses

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ADP Enrichment

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