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ghsa-94wm-8j6r-283r

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:42

Modified

2022-05-24 17:42

Details

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 to a file multiple times, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the consumption of all memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 192156.

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  "modified": "2022-05-24T17:42:12Z",
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cve-2020-4956

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-02-15 15:05

Modified

2024-09-17 00:25

Severity ?

4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6404966	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192156	vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	IBM	Spectrum Protect Operations Center

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