CVE-2020-4415: IBM Spectrum Protect

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 8.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 server is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of an administrator or user associated with the Spectrum Protect server or cause the Spectrum Protect server to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 179990.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect: from 7.1.0.0, up to and including 7.1.10.0; from 8.1.0.0, up to and including 8.1.9.200

Published 2020-04-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.