CVE-2020-4711: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.6 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 view arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 187501.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect Plus: from 10.1.0, up to and including 10.1.6

Published 2020-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.