CVE-2019-4087

Spectrum Protect Operations Center vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

7.0%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

IBM Spectrum Protect Servers 7.1 and 8.1 and Storage Agents are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by servers and storage agents in response to specifically crafted communication exchanges. By sending an overly long request, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with instance id privileges or cause the server or storage agent to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 157510.

Affected vendor

Ibm

Affected product

Spectrum Protect Operations Center

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

Published

2019-07-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Ibm Spectrum Protect Operations Center is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-4087.
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