Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 29, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-20490

Description

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.8 could allow a local user to cause a denial of service due to insecure file permission settings. IBM X-Force ID: 197791.

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Affected products

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

Patches

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References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197791nvdVDB EntryVendor Advisory
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6466609nvdVendor Advisory

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