CVE-2021-20505 (GCVE-0-2021-20505)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-07-29 12:00
Modified
2024-09-16 17:49
CWE
  • Obtain Information
Summary
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor Version: FW920
Version: FW930
Version: FW940
Version: FW950
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