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CVE-2020-4491 (GCVE-0-2020-4491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-10-20 14:15 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:46
VLAI
Summary
IBM Spectrum Scale V4.2.0.0 through V4.2.3.22 and V5.0.0.0 through V5.0.5 could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service by sending a large number of RPC requests to the mmfsd daemon which would cause the service to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 181991.
Severity
4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/I:N/S:U/UI:N/PR:N/AV:L/AC:L/A:L/C:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
  • Denial of Service
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM Spectrum Scale Affected: 4.2.0.0
Affected: 5.0.0.0
Affected: 5.0.5
Affected: 4.2.3.22
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Date Public
2020-10-19 00:00
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