What is CVE-2021-20432?

CVE-2021-20432 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-04-26.

How severe is CVE-2021-20432?

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

Vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

CVE-2021-20432

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.7 uses Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) which could allow an attacker to carry out privileged actions and retrieve sensitive information as the domain name is not being limited to only trusted domains. IBM X-Force ID: 196344.

Published 2021-04-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (53.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 53rd percentile — 53.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus — versions 10.1.0, 10.1.7
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Linux Kernel

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6445733 (Vendor Advisory)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196344 (VDB Entry, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-20432?: CVE-2021-20432 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-04-26.
How severe is CVE-2021-20432?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.