CVE-2020-4711 Path traversal in Spectrum Protect Plus

What is CVE-2020-4711?

CVE-2020-4711 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, published on 15 Sep 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.6 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 187501.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4711?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Protect Plus.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4711?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4711 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2020-4711 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4711 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
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Also known as GHSA-j9fm-2qf2-5gjm.