CVE-2020-4559 Denial of service in Spectrum Protect

What is CVE-2020-4559?

CVE-2020-4559 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect, published on 28 Aug 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service due ti improper validation of user-supplied input. IBM X-Force ID: 183613.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4559?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Protect.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4559?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4559 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-2020-4559 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4559 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Protect

• CVE-2020-4415 Memory corruption in Spectrum Protect Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4210 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4211 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4212 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4213 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-7qc3-284q-8wvm.