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CVE-2020-4471 (GCVE-0-2020-4471)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-15 13:25 – Updated: 2024-09-17 03:55
VLAI
Summary
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0 through 10.1.5 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service or hijack DNS sessions by send a specially crafted HTTP command to the remote server. IBM X-Force ID: 181726.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/PR:N/AC:H/C:N/UI:N/S:U/A:L/I:L/E:U/RC:C/RL:O
CWE
  • Denial of Service
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Affected: 10.1.0
Affected: 10.1.5
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Date Public
2020-06-12 00:00
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