CVE-2017-3768

HIGH

Lenovo/IBM System x <4.4/<6.4 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An unprivileged attacker with connectivity to the IMM2 could cause a denial of service attack on the IMM2 (Versions earlier than 4.4 for Lenovo System x and earlier than 6.4 for IBM System x). Flooding the IMM2 with a high volume of authentication failures via the Common Information Model (CIM) used by LXCA and OneCLI and other tools can exhaust available system memory which can cause the IMM2 to reboot itself until the requests cease.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0124
EPSS Percentile 65.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (42)
ibm/bladecenter_hs22_firmware < 6.4
ibm/bladecenter_hs23_firmware < 6.4
ibm/bladecenter_hs23e_firmware < 6.4
ibm/flex_system_x220_m4_firmware < 6.4
ibm/flex_system_x222_m4_firmware < 6.4
ibm/flex_system_x240_m4_firmware < 6.4
ibm/flex_system_x280_m4_firmware < 6.4
ibm/flex_system_x440_m4_firmware < 6.4
ibm/flex_system_x480_m4_firmware < 6.4
ibm/flex_system_x880_m4_firmware < 6.4
... and 32 more
Published Jan 26, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026