THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-4207
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2020-4207

Iot Messagesight vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
IBM Watson IoT Message Gateway 2.0.0.x, 5.0.0.0, 5.0.0.1, and 5.0.0.2 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when handling a failed HTTP request with specific content in the headers. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 174972.
Affected vendor
Ibm
Affected product
Iot Messagesight
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-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow
Published
2020-01-28

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 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-4207

  • Confirm whether Ibm Iot Messagesight is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-4207.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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