CVE-2020-4956 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2020-4956

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 7.1 and 8.1 is vulnerable...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Spectrum Protect Operations Center
Vulnerable Versions:
8.1, 7.1, 8.1.10.100, 7.1.12

Timeline

Official Publish: February 15th, 2021
Last Modified: September 17th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/C:N/I:N/PR:L/AV:A/UI:N/A:H/S:U/AC:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.