Vulnerability · Published Mar 2, 2021 · Assigned by ibm
CVE-2020-4719
Medium 4.9
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Cloud APM from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 61% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.0)4.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 39.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
The IBM Cloud APM 8.1.4 server will issue a DNS request to resolve any hostname specified in the Cloud Event Management Webhook URL configuration definition. This could enable an authenticated user with admin authorization to create DNS query strings that are not hostnames. IBM X-Force ID: 187861.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6417137 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- ibm-monitoring-cve20204719-sec-bypass (187861) vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF