EudorIACyber Intelligence
Operational monitoring Newsletter IT EN
← Back to intelligence
Vulnerability

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

Official source
EudorIA operational summary

What it means

Priority 45/100

NIST National Vulnerability Database ha pubblicato CVE-2021-20505. La rilevanza va confermata rispetto alle tecnologie effettivamente in uso.

Why it matters

Il segnale diventa operativo solo se prodotto, versione o servizio sono presenti nel perimetro.

AudienceITSOCCISO
Information centre

Translation in progress

NIST National Vulnerability Database

The official content is available in the original language. The Italian version will be published once automated checks are complete.

Text acquired from the source

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
Technical scope

Affected products and versions

Verification in progress
Information not yet acquired.

The collector will check NVD and the available official vendor advisories.

Open the original source