Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-20505

Medium

Published: 29 July 2021

Published
29 July 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0010 27.5th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-20505 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Ibm Powervm Hypervisor. Its CVSS base score is 4.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 27.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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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

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

ibm
powervm hypervisor
fw920, fw930, fw940, fw950

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References