Vulnerability · Published Jan 8, 2021 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2020-5021

Medium 4.0

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Spectrum Protect Plus from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 16% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)4.0Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 84.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.6 does not invalidate session after a password reset which could allow a local user to impersonate another user on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 193657.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
IBM	Spectrum Protect Plus	10.1.010.1.6

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6398754 x_refsource_CONFIRM
ibm-spectrum-cve20205021-session-fixation (193657) vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF