CVE-2020-4209: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect Plus: from 10.1.0, up to and including 10.1.5

Published 2020-05-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.