CVE-2020-4242 is a critical vulnerability affecting IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus versions 10.1.0 through 10.1.5, allowing a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands by sending a specially crafted request. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires only low privileges, enabling full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its high severity and potential for remote code execution, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 10.1.0, <= 10.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_plus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 10.1.0, <= 10.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.