CVE-2020-5019: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.6 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject HTTP HOST header, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 193655.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect Plus: from 10.1.0, before 10.1.7 (fixed in 10.1.7)

Published 2021-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.