Insufficient sssion expiration in IBM Cloud Pak System



Risk Low
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2020-4914
CWE-ID CWE-613
Exploitation vector Local
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 IBM Cloud Pak System
Server applications / Server solutions for antivurus protection

Vendor IBM Corporation

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one low risk vulnerability.

1) Insufficient Session Expiration

EUVDB-ID: #VU82321

Risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: 4.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-4914

CWE-ID: CWE-613 - Insufficient Session Expiration

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient session expiration issue. A local user can obtain or guess session token and perform a denial of service attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Cloud Pak System: 2.3.3.0 - 2.3.3.5

CPE2.3 External links

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6967181


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

The attacker would have to login to the system and perform certain actions in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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