CVE-2020-4495: IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Jazz Foundation and IBM Engineering products could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper access control. By sending a specially-crafted request to the REST API, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions, and execute arbitrary actions with administrative privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 182114.

Affected products

• IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management: version 6.0.6 only; version 6.0.6.1 only
• IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only
• IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only
• IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only
• IBM Engineering Test Management: version 7.0.0 only; version 7.0.1 only
• IBM Rational Doors Next Generation: version 6.0.6 only; version 6.0.6.1 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only
• IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager: version 6.0.6 only; version 6.0.6.1 only
• IBM Rational Quality Manager: version 6.0.6 only; version 6.0.6.1 only
• IBM Removable Media Manager: version 6.0.6 only; version 6.0.6.1 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2021-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.