What is CVE-2020-4471?

CVE-2020-4471 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-06-15.

How severe is CVE-2020-4471?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Auth bypass in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

CVE-2020-4471

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service or hijack DNS sessions by send a specially crafted HTTP command to the remote server. IBM X-Force ID: 181726.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.027 (84.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Ibm Spectrum Protect Plus — versions 10.1.0, 10.1.5
Ibm Spectrum_protect_plus

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical Function

References

psirt@us.ibm.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
psirt@us.ibm.com (VDB Entry, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)
psirt@us.ibm.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-4471?: CVE-2020-4471 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-06-15.
How severe is CVE-2020-4471?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.