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FKIE_CVE-2021-3723

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-11-12 22:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:05

Severity

7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

A command injection vulnerability was reported in the Integrated Management Module (IMM) of legacy IBM System x 3550 M3 and IBM System x 3650 M3 servers that could allow the execution of operating system commands over an authenticated SSH or Telnet session.

References

	URL	Tags
	psirt@lenovo.com	https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-66347	Third Party Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-66347	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
ibm	system_x3550_m3_firmware	*
ibm	system_x3550_m3	-
ibm	system_x3650_m3_firmware	*
ibm	system_x3650_m3	-

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CVE-2021-3723 (GCVE-0-2021-3723)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-12 22:05 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:01

Summary

Severity

7.2 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-78 - OS Command Injection

Assigner

lenovo CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 84/100 over 43 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
IBM	IBM System x 3550 M3	Affected: all
IBM	IBM System x 3650 M3	Affected: all

Credits

Lenovo thanks Denver Abrey (@Denver_A) for reporting this issue.

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