Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-4891 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale

CVSS 2.1 - LOW

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

PARTIAL

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

NONE

local

low complexity

ibm

CWE-307

NVD

Published: 2021-03-16

Updated: 2021-03-22

Summary

IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.0 through 5.0.5.5 and 5.1.0 through 5.1.0.2 uses an inadequate account lockout setting that could allow a local user er to brute force Rest API account credentials. IBM X-Force ID: 190974.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Ibm IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.0.0 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.0.1 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.0.2 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.1.0 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.1.1 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.1.2 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.2.0 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.2.1 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.2.2 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.2.3 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.3.2 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.4.0 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.4.1 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.4.2 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.4.3 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.4.4 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.5 IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.5.2 IBM Spectrum Scale *	19

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-307 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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