CVE-2020-4353 Denial of service in MaaS360

Medium 4.6 Published Updated

A local attacker with physical access can crash the application to bypass restrictions and access protected settings.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-4353?

CVE-2020-4353 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM MaaS360, published on 23 Apr 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM MaaS360 6.82 could allow a user with pysical access to the device to crash the application which may enable the user to access restricted applications and device settings. IBM X-Force ID: 178505.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4353?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Maas360.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4353?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4353 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-2020-4353 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4353 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-5mgh-v3q3-5v3f.

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