What is CVE-2020-4956?

CVE-2020-4956 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Protect Operations Center, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2021-02-15.

How severe is CVE-2020-4956?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Ibm Spectrum Protect Operations Center

CVE-2020-4956

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…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.004 (34.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Ibm Spectrum Protect Operations Center — versions 8.1, 7.1, 8.1.10.100
Ibm Spectrum_protect_operations_center

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

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-2020-4956?: CVE-2020-4956 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Protect Operations Center, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2021-02-15.
How severe is CVE-2020-4956?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.