CVE-2021-20432 Security feature bypass in Spectrum Protect Plus

What is CVE-2021-20432?

CVE-2021-20432 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, published on 26 Apr 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.7 uses Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) which could allow an attacker to carry out privileged actions and retrieve sensitive information as the domain name is not being limited to only trusted domains. IBM X-Force ID: 196344.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-20432?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Protect Plus.

How do I fix CVE-2021-20432?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-20432 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-20432 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-20432 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-8jmw-3m3p-q6p3.