CVE-2020-4217 Denial of service in Spectrum Scale
Attackers can crash IBM Spectrum Scale daemons, causing denial of service for the cluster and managed file systems.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-4217?
CVE-2020-4217 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Scale, published on 9 Mar 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2 and 5.0 file system component is affected by a denial of service security vulnerability. An attacker can force the Spectrum Scale mmfsd/mmsdrserv daemons to unexpectedly exit, impacting the functionality of the Spectrum Scale cluster and the availability of file systems managed by Spectrum Scale. IBM X-Force ID: 175067.
Weakness: CWE-754
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4217?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Spectrum Scale.
How do I fix CVE-2020-4217?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4217 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2020-4217 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4217 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Spectrum Scale
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rh46-rhp9-6x53.