{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4956 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4956 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2020-4956 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center, published on 15 Feb 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-4956 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-4956 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center, published on 15 Feb 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4956 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4956/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4956/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-4956","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4956/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-4956","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-94wm-8j6r-283r"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"IBM Spectrum Protect","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Remote attackers can exhaust memory resources in IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center by manipulating cache values, causing a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"ibm","cpe":[{"product":"spectrum_protect_operations_center","vendor":"ibm"}],"cvss":{"score":4.8,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.0/C:N/I:N/PR:L/AV:A/UI:N/A:H/S:U/AC:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-400","name":"Uncontrolled Resource Consumption"}],"description":"IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 7.1 and 8.1 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a RPC that allows certain cache values to be set and dumped to a file. By setting a grossly large cache value and dumping that cached value to a file multiple times, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the consumption of all memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 192156.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Denial of service in Spectrum Protect Operations Center","id":"CVE-2020-4956","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2020"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Information disclosure in Security Identity Governance and Intelligence","id":"CVE-2020-4957"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"File upload in Spectrum Protect Operations Center","id":"CVE-2020-4955"},"products":["Spectrum Protect Operations Center"],"published":"2021-02-15","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in Spectrum Protect","id":"CVE-2019-4087","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-07-02"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Code injection in Spectrum Protect Operations Center","id":"CVE-2020-4693","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-09-02"},{"cvss_score":8,"headline":"File upload in Spectrum Protect Operations Center","id":"CVE-2020-4955","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-02-15"},{"cvss_score":7.4,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Spectrum Protect","id":"CVE-2019-4088","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-07-02"},{"cvss_score":5.9,"headline":"Auth bypass in Spectrum Protect Server","id":"CVE-2022-22485","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-06-17"},{"cvss_score":5.3,"headline":"Auth bypass in Spectrum Protect Operations Center","id":"CVE-2020-4771","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-11-23"},{"cvss_score":5.1,"headline":"Information disclosure in Spectrum Protect Operations Center","id":"CVE-2021-38901","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-12-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-17","vendors":["IBM"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can exhaust memory resources in IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center by manipulating cache values, causing a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4956/"}