CVE-2020-4851: IBM Spectrum Scale

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.0 through 5.0.5.5 and 5.1.0 through 5.1.0.2 could allow a local user to poison log files which could impact support and development efforts. IBM X-Force ID: 190450.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Scale: from 5.0.0.0, before 5.0.5.5 (fixed in 5.0.5.5); from 5.1.0.0, before 5.1.0.2 (fixed in 5.1.0.2)

Published 2021-03-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.