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RHSA-2020:0979

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2020-03-26 08:14 - Updated: 2025-11-21 18:12

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: ipmitool security update

Severity

Important

Notes

Topic: An update for ipmitool is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Details: The ipmitool packages contain a command-line utility for interfacing with devices that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification. IPMI is an open standard for machine health, inventory, and remote power control. Security Fix(es): * ipmitool: Buffer overflow in read_fru_area_section function in lib/ipmi_fru.c (CVE-2020-5208) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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CVE-2020-5208

A flaw was found in several functions of the IPMItool, where it failed to check data received from a LAN properly. An attacker could use this flaw to craft payloads, which can lead to a buffer overflow and also cause memory corruption, a denial of service, and remote code execution.

8.1 (High)


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

CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Affected products

Fixed 12 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:exchange-bmc-os-info-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.noarch	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:ipmievd-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:ipmievd-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:ipmievd-debuginfo-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:ipmievd-debuginfo-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:ipmitool-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:ipmitool-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.src	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:ipmitool-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:ipmitool-debuginfo-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:ipmitool-debuginfo-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:ipmitool-debugsource-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround
Unresolved product id: AppStream-8.0.0.Z.E4S:ipmitool-debugsource-0:1.8.18-12.el8_0.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix fix Workaround

Threats

Impact Important

References

9 references

URL	Category
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0979	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classi…	external
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1798721	external
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/a…	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-5208	self
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1798721	external
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5208	external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5208	external
https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/security/adv…	external

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CVE-2020-5208 (GCVE-0-2020-5208)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-02-05 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:22

Title

remote code execution vulnerability in ipmitool

Summary

It's been found that multiple functions in ipmitool before 1.8.19 neglect proper checking of the data received from a remote LAN party, which may lead to buffer overflows and potentially to remote code execution on the ipmitool side. This is especially dangerous if ipmitool is run as a privileged user. This problem is fixed in version 1.8.19.

Severity

7.7 (High)


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

CWE

CWE-120 - Buffer Overflow

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7895 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-03	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
ipmitool	ipmitool	Affected: unspecified , < < 1.8.19 (custom)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Vulnerability timeline

Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

Order JSON

How durations are calculated

Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

Publication & reservation Sightings KEV catalogs Other timestamps

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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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