CVE-2020-4382 Denial of service in Elastic Storage Server

Medium 6.2 Published 24 Aug 2020 Updated 16 Sep 2024

An authenticated user can cause a denial of service during deployment or upgrade in IBM Elastic Storage Server.

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-2020-4382?

CVE-2020-4382 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM Elastic Storage Server, published on 24 Aug 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Scale for IBM Elastic Storage Server 5.3.0 through 5.3.5 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service during deployment or upgrade pertaining to xcat services. IBM X-Force ID: 179163.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4382?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Elastic Storage Server.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4382?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4382 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-2020-4382 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4382 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-q99g-4336-rgrv.