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CVE-2020-4273

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-4273 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting IBM Spectrum Scale versions 4.2 and 5.0, allowing a local unprivileged attacker to execute commands as root. The attack requires intimate knowledge of the environment and specially crafted input, but has low attack complexity and no user interaction. While the CVSS score is 7.8, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.2.0.0, <= 4.2.3.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.0.0.0, <= 5.0.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.4HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.4
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/175977
VDB EntryVendor Advisory
ibm.com / support/pages/node/6151701
MitigationPatchVendor Advisory