Vulnerability · Published Jan 8, 2021 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2020-5019

Medium 6.5

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 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 28.6% 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 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject HTTP HOST header, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 193655.

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-cve20205019-header-injection (193655) vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF