CVE-2020-4891 Security feature bypass in Spectrum Scale

What is CVE-2020-4891?

CVE-2020-4891 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Spectrum Scale, published on 16 Mar 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.0 through 5.0.5.5 and 5.1.0 through 5.1.0.2 uses an inadequate account lockout setting that could allow a local user er to brute force Rest API account credentials. IBM X-Force ID: 190974.

Weakness: CWE-307

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4891?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Scale.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4891?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4891 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-4891 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4891 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Spectrum Scale

• CVE-2019-4715 Command injection in Spectrum Scale High 8.8
• CVE-2021-29740 Other in Spectrum Scale High 8.4
• CVE-2019-4558 Privilege escalation in Spectrum Scale High 8.1
• CVE-2020-4217 Denial of service in Spectrum Scale High 7.5
• CVE-2020-4273 Command injection in Spectrum Scale High 7.4

All Ibm Spectrum Scale vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-pp7w-jhfx-v9pw.