What is CVE-2020-4492?

CVE-2020-4492 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Scale, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-08-31.

How severe is CVE-2020-4492?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Scale

CVE-2020-4492

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.

EPSS: 0.003 (24.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Ibm Spectrum Scale — versions 4.2.0.0, 5.0.0.0, 5.0.4.3
Ibm Spectrum_scale

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-88 — Argument Injection

References

psirt@us.ibm.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
psirt@us.ibm.com (VDB Entry, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-4492?: CVE-2020-4492 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Scale, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-08-31.
How severe is CVE-2020-4492?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.