CVE-2020-4496: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0.0 through 10.1.8.x server connection to an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus workload agent is subject to a man-in-the-middle attack due to improper certificate validation. IBM X-Force ID: 182046.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect Plus: from 10.1.0, up to and including 10.1.8.1

Published 2021-12-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.