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CVE-2021-20505

CVE information

Published

2 years ago

Last Modified

2 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

CVSSv3.1 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

The PowerVM Logical Partition Mobility(LPM) (PowerVM Hypervisor FW920, FW930, FW940, and FW950) encryption key exchange protocol can be compromised. If an attacker has the ability to capture encrypted LPM network traffic and is able to gain service access to the FSP they can use this information to perform a series of PowerVM service procedures to decrypt the captured migration traffic IBM X-Force ID: 198232.

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
3.5/10
Exploit Score
6.8/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
Single
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
None

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4.4/10
Exploit Score
0.7/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Privileges Required
High
Impact Score
3.6/10
Confidentiality Impact
High
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
None
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw930:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw940:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw950:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw920:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -