CVE-2020-4492 MEDIUM

CVE-2020-4492

Vendor Ibm
Product Spectrum Scale
Published August 31, 2020
Last update September 16, 2024
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CVSS base score

6.2/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 31, 2020 CVE published
September 16, 2024 Record updated