CVE-2019-4652 Misconfiguration in Spectrum Protect Plus

What is CVE-2019-4652?

CVE-2019-4652 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, published on 12 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.4 uses insecure file permissions on restored files and directories in Windows which could allow a local user to obtain sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions. IBM X-Force ID: 170963.

Weakness: CWE-276

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-4652?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Protect Plus.

How do I fix CVE-2019-4652?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-4652 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2019-4652 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-4652 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

• CVE-2020-4854 Hardcoded credentials in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4242 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.8
• CVE-2019-4357 Code injection in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.2
• CVE-2020-4469 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.1
• CVE-2020-4703 File upload in Spectrum Protect Plus High 8.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-964p-hcfc-cv9h.