CVE-2020-4415 Memory corruption in Spectrum Protect

What is CVE-2020-4415?

CVE-2020-4415 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect, published on 23 Apr 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 server is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of an administrator or user associated with the Spectrum Protect server or cause the Spectrum Protect server to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 179990.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4415?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Protect.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4415?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4415 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2020-4415 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4415 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Protect

• CVE-2020-4210 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4211 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4212 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4213 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-4222 Command injection in Spectrum Protect Plus Critical 9.8

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-j8gx-2792-8g3x.