Vulnerability · Published Nov 23, 2020 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2020-4771

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Spectrum Protect Operations Center from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 24.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 8.1.0.000 through 8.1.10.and 7.1.0.000 through 7.1.11 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by improper authentication of a websocket endpoint. By using known tools to subscribe to the websocket event stream, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 188993.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 8.18.1.107.17.1.11

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