CVE-2020-4954: IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 7.1 and 8.1 could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication restrictions, caused by improper session validation . By using the configuration panel to obtain a valid session using an attacker controlled IBM Spectrum Protect server, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass authentication and gain access to a limited number of debug functions, such as logging levels. IBM X-Force ID: 192153.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center: from 7.1.0.000, before 7.1.13.000 (fixed in 7.1.13.000); from 8.1.0.000, before 8.1.10.200 (fixed in 8.1.10.200)

Published 2021-02-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.