CVE-2020-4273: IBM Spectrum Scale

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2 and 5.0 could allow a local unprivileged attacker with intimate knowledge of the enviornment to execute commands as root using specially crafted input. IBM X-Force ID: 175977.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Scale: from 4.2.0.0, up to and including 4.2.3.20; from 5.0.0.0, up to and including 5.0.4.2

Published 2020-04-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.