Insufficient Session Expiration in IBM Cloud Pak System - CVE-2020-4914

 

Insufficient Session Expiration in IBM Cloud Pak System - CVE-2020-4914

Published: October 24, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU82321
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.8 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-4914
CWE-ID: CWE-613
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

IBM Cloud Pak System

How to mitigate CVE-2020-4914

Install updates from vendor's website.

IBM Cloud Pak System - update to 2.3.3.6 iFix 1

External References

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