CVE-2020-4891

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-307

Description

IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.0 through 5.0.5.5 and 5.1.0 through 5.1.0.2 uses an inadequate account lockout setting that could allow a local user er to brute force Rest API account credentials. IBM X-Force ID: 190974.

Affected products

IBM Spectrum Scale: from 5.0.0.0 through 5.0.5.5; from 5.1.0.0 through 5.1.0.2

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/190974
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6430147
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/190974
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6430147

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