CVE-2020-4206 is a critical vulnerability affecting IBM Spectrum Protect Plus versions 10.1.0 through 10.1.5, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as the root user due to improper input validation. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability presents a significant risk, as it can be exploited remotely with low privileges and no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is currently available and it is not listed in the KEV catalog, there is also minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not actively exploited in the wild.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 10.1.0, <= 10.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_plus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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.