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01 Record

CVE-2020-4492

IBM Spectrum Scale V5.0.0.0 through V5.0.4.3 and V4.2.0.0 through V4.2.3.21 could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service crashing the kernel by sending a subset of ioctls on the device

MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: ibm
CNA base score6.2 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/I:N/C:N/UI:N/AC:L/A:H/PR:N/S:U/AV:L/RC:C/E:U/RL:O

02 Description

IBM Spectrum Scale V5.0.0.0 through V5.0.4.3 and V4.2.0.0 through V4.2.3.21 could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service crashing the kernel by sending a subset of ioctls on the device

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
0.31% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 24.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2020-08-31 12:55Z6 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-16 23:11Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2019-12-30
Assigning CNA
ibm
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Medium (CVSS 6.2)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/I:N/C:N/UI:N/AC:L/A:H/PR:N/S:U/AV:L/RC:C/E:U/RL:O
Weaknesses
  • CWE-88Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')Base
Data version
5.1
Document digest
d84939bc7abb658ce8ea5d7c8ca3c45a41cd8c1812b4328c84a6adaa55c151d2

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
IBMSpectrum Scale4.2.0.0, 5.0.0.0, 5.0.4.3, 4.2.3.21—

06 References