Vulnerability · Published Feb 15, 2021 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2020-4954

Medium 4.2

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 0.6% (higher than 48% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)4.2Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 51.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 7.1 and 8.1 could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication restrictions, caused by improper session validation . By using the configuration panel to obtain a valid session using an attacker controlled IBM Spectrum Protect server, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass authentication and gain access to a limited number of debug functions, such as logging levels. IBM X-Force ID: 192153.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
IBM	Spectrum Protect Operations Center	8.17.18.1.10.1007.1.12

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6404966 x_refsource_CONFIRM
ibm-spectrum-cve20204954-auth-bypass (192153) vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF