CVE-2021-20505: 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
What it means
NIST National Vulnerability Database ha pubblicato CVE-2021-20505. La rilevanza va confermata rispetto alle tecnologie effettivamente in uso.
Why it matters
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Recommended actions
- Confermare l'applicabilita consultando la fonte ufficiale e l'inventario asset.
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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
- Source
- NIST National Vulnerability Database
- Publishing entity
- NIST National Vulnerability Database
- Entity type
- National authority
- Area
- North America · US
- Original language
- en · translation in preparation
- Publication
- 29/07/2021 14:15
- CVE
- CVE-2021-20505
- Classification
- Medium
- Stated country
- US
Affected products and versions
The collector will check NVD and the available official vendor advisories.