CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-20505

Published: Jul 29, 2021 | Modified: Aug 09, 2021
CVSS 3.x
4.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
3.5 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Powervm_hypervisor Ibm fw920 (including) fw920 (including)
Powervm_hypervisor Ibm fw930 (including) fw930 (including)
Powervm_hypervisor Ibm fw940 (including) fw940 (including)
Powervm_hypervisor Ibm fw950 (including) fw950 (including)

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