CVE-2021-20490: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.8 could allow a local user to cause a denial of service due to insecure file permission settings. IBM X-Force ID: 197791.

Affected products

• IBM Spectrum Protect Plus: from 10.1.0, up to and including 10.1.8

Published 2021-06-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.