Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published May 4, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-4209

Description

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 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 create arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 175019.

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Affected products

IBM/Spectrum Protectllm-fuzzy
Range: 10.1.0 - 10.1.5
IBM/Spectrum Protect Plus
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_plus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: >=10.1.0,<=10.1.5
IBM/Spectrum Protect Servercpe-rescue
Range: 10.1.0

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References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6116488nvdPatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175019nvdVDB EntryVendor Advisory

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