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CVE-2020-4211 Critical · 9.8 EPSS 71.1%

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 and 10.1.5 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system

IBM · Spectrum Protect Plus

Summary

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus (versions 10.1.0 and 10.1.5) contains a flaw that lets crafted HTTP commands reach command execution on the host. An attacker can exploit it remotely by sending a specially crafted HTTP request, without authentication or user interaction, to run arbitrary commands on the system.

Official description · CVE.org

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 and 10.1.5 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system. By using a specially crafted HTTP command, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary command on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 175022.

Breakdown
26.7 / 100
Exploited
Not confirmed
Reports
0
Tactics
0/15

Disclosed on 24 Feb 2020. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.

A fix was bypassed or incomplete once over 4 months.

Linked vulnerabilitiesLinked by evidence that a fix failed or the same code was patched again. Oldest first.

  1. This CVECVE-2020-4211IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 and 10.1.5 could allow a remote…24 Feb 2020
  2. incomplete fixHigh

    Why these are linked:

    • Stated in the CVE textThis vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-4211.
    • Similar weakness in the same product (machine-matched)same product + description similarity
    CVE-2020-4469IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow a…15 Jun 2020

techniques

No techniques linked

No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.

What security researchers reported

Not named in any threat report yet

References

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