CVE-2020-4955: IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center

High severity, CVSS 8.0. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 7.1 and 8.1could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper parameter validation. By creating an unspecified servlet request with specially crafted input parameters, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to load a malicious .dll with elevated privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 192155.

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.