CVE-2020-4206

Spectrum Protect Plus vulnerability

CVSS

8.8

EPSS

4.6%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system in the context of root user, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. IBM X-Force ID: 174966.

Affected vendor

Ibm

Affected product

Spectrum Protect Plus

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

Published

2020-03-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Ibm Spectrum Protect Plus is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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