CVE-2020-5014
Published: 08 March 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-5014 is a medium-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability in Ibm Datapower Gateway. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 27.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-26261
Vulnerability details
IBM DataPower Gateway V10 and V2018 could allow a local attacker with administrative privileges to execute arbitrary code on the system using a server-side requesr forgery attack. IBM X-Force ID: 193247.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing attempts server-side requests to internal resources, identifying SSRF weaknesses for remediation.
Outbound connections to external resources can be monitored and limited at the boundary, reducing SSRF impact.
Validates server-side URLs and resource references to block SSRF attempts.
Detects server-side request forgery through monitoring of unexpected outbound connections.