CVE-2020-4492

MEDIUM

IBM Spectrum Scale < 4.2.3.21 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

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.

References (2)

[VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/181992

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6324249

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 17.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-88

Status published

Affected Products (1)

ibm/spectrum_scale < 4.2.3.21

Timeline

Published Aug 31, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026