CVE-2021-20505

Medium

Description

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

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.4
Exploit probability—
ProductIbm Powervm Hypervisor
PublishedJul 29, 2021
First seenJul 29, 2021

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
ibm powervm_hypervisorfw920, fw930, fw940, fw950—

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