What is CVE-2020-4756?

CVE-2020-4756 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Elastic Storage Server, classified under Improper Resource Shutdown or Release. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-10-20.

How severe is CVE-2020-4756?

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

Vulnerability in Ibm Elastic Storage Server

CVE-2020-4756

IBM Spectrum Scale V4.2.0.0 through V4.2.3.23 and V5.0.0.0 through V5.0.5.2 as well as IBM Elastic Storage System 6.0.0 through 6.0.1.0 could allow a local attacker to invoke a subset of ioctls on the device with invalid arguments that cou…

EPSS: 0.004 (27.6th 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 Elastic Storage Server — versions 6.0.0, 6.0.1.0
Ibm Elastic_storage_server
Ibm Spectrum Scale — versions 4.2.0.0, 5.0.0.0, 4.2.3.23
Ibm Spectrum_scale

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-404 — Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-4756?: CVE-2020-4756 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Elastic Storage Server, classified under Improper Resource Shutdown or Release. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-10-20.
How severe is CVE-2020-4756?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.