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CVE-2017-3768 — An unprivileged attacker with connectivity to the IMM2 could cause a denial of s

An unprivileged attacker with connectivity to the IMM2 could cause a denial of service attack on the IMM2 (Versions earlier than 4.4 for Lenovo System x and earlier than 6.4 for IBM System x). Flooding the IMM2 with a high volume of authentication failures via the Common Informat

CVSS
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EPSS
0.69% (top 28.40%)
CWE
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Published
2018-01-26T19:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-09-16T22:02:02.189Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

An unprivileged attacker with connectivity to the IMM2 could cause a denial of service attack on the IMM2 (Versions earlier than 4.4 for Lenovo System x and earlier than 6.4 for IBM System x). Flooding the IMM2 with a high volume of authentication failures via the Common Information Model (CIM) used by LXCA and OneCLI and other tools can exhaust available system memory which can cause the IMM2 to…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Lenovo Group Ltd.Integrated Management Module 2 (IMM2)Earlier than 4.4 for Lenovo System x, Earlier than 6.4 for IBM System x

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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