Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Dec 13, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-4496

Description

The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0.0 through 10.1.8.x server connection to an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus workload agent is subject to a man-in-the-middle attack due to improper certificate validation. IBM X-Force ID: 182046.

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Affected products

IBM/Spectrum Protectllm-fuzzy
Range: 10.1.0.0 - 10.1.8.x
IBM/Spectrum Protect Servercpe-rescue
Range: 10.1.0.0
IBM/Spectrum Protect Plus
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_plus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: >=10.1.0,<=10.1.8.1

Patches

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References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6525346nvdPatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/182046nvdVDB EntryVendor Advisory

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