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CVE-2020-4497: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus information disclosure

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 23/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.41% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
Fixed version: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.12.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.12 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.12 discloses sensitive information due to unencrypted data being used in the communication flow between Spectrum Protect Plus vSnap and its agents. An attacker could obtain information using main in the middle techniques. IBM X-Force ID: 182106.

MediumCVSS 5.9 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Published: Dec 14, 2022
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 0.4% · 35th percentile
CWE: CWE-319

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 23 / 40 · 5.9 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 5.9
CNA · ibm: 6.8; 0.9 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
ibm	spectrum protect plus	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_protect_plus

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Affected versions

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ibm spectrum protect plus10.1.0 and later · before 10.1.13

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ibm). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
- 10.1.0 and later · before 10.1.12affected · semver

Same product

ibm: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2020-4241IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary comm
55Plan
CVE-2020-4469IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.
43Plan
CVE-2020-4854IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 thorugh 10.1.6 contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for
40Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2022-40234Sep 19, 2022 · Versions of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus prior to 10.1.12 (excluding 10.1.12) include the private key information for a certificate inside the
23Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2022-40608Sep 19, 2022 · IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.6 through 10.1.11 Microsoft File Systems restore operation can download any file on the target machine by man
31Monitor
Later →CVE-2023-47148Feb 2, 2024 · IBM Storage Protect Plus Server information disclosure
30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus	10.1.12	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope