Vulnerability · Published Aug 31, 2020 · Assigned by ibm
CVE-2020-4492
Medium 6.2
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Spectrum Scale from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 25% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.0)6.2Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 75.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| IBM | Spectrum Scale | 4.2.0.05.0.0.05.0.4.34.2.3.21 |
References
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6324249 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- ibm-spectrum-cve20204492-dos (181992) vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF