CVE-2021-20536 Information disclosure in Spectrum Protect Plus

What is CVE-2021-20536?

CVE-2021-20536 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, published on 26 Apr 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus File Systems Agent 10.1.6 and 10.1.7 stores potentially sensitive information in log files that could be read by a local user. IBM X-Force ID: 198836.

Weakness: CWE-532

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-20536?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spectrum Protect Plus.

How do I fix CVE-2021-20536?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-20536 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-20536 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-20536 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-wffp-p4h8-f6wq.