CVE-2020-4311 Code injection in Tivoli Monitoring

What is CVE-2020-4311?

CVE-2020-4311 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Monitoring, published on 23 Apr 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.3.0 could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system. By placing a specially crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to load other DLL files located in the same directory and execute arbitrary code on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 177083.

Weakness: CWE-732

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4311?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Tivoli Monitoring.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4311?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4311 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2020-4311 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4311 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Tivoli Monitoring

• CVE-2015-7411 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.9
• CVE-2025-3357 IBM Tivoli Monitoring code execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-1789 Code injection in Tivoli Monitoring V6 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-3356 IBM Tivoli Monitoring is vulnerable to unauthenticated file read and write operations High 8.6
• CVE-2015-5003 Command injection in n/a High 8.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rv3f-x6rg-3mm8.