CVE-2020-4492
MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 31, 2020 at 12:55 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:20 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorSpectrum Scale
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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
VDB Entryx_refsource_XFVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/181992x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6324249CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-88
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