CVE-2021-20505

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-20505
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-07-29 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-08-09 17:21:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Ibm Powervm Hypervisor fw920 All All All
Operating System Ibm Powervm Hypervisor fw930 All All All
Operating System Ibm Powervm Hypervisor fw940 All All All
Operating System Ibm Powervm Hypervisor fw950 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Bulletin: This Power System update is being released to address CVE 2021-20505 CONFIRM www.ibm.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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